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I'm experimenting with diagnostics formatting. * I've added a left margin, showing both the file name and line numbers * I'm showing one line of context above/below the offending line. * I'm using grey for comments. What do you think? Is there anything you'd change?

I frequently find myself running: $ slowish $ slowish | jq $ slowish | jq | grep I feel there must be a better way to build up pipelines incrementally without re-running. I could save each output to a file, but it's more verbose, and most of these tools have nicer output when stdout is a TTY.

There are *so many* ways that reading a text file can fail. Maybe it doesn't exist, it's a broken symlink, it's actually a directory, it's not the encoding you expected, or perhaps you just don't have the correct permissions. Reporting good errors is surprisingly labour intensive.