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bliker
Is this functional on windows?
ygra
Nope. It's hardcoded to work only on terminal emulators. It should be possible to provide a Windows implementation of the few commands used, though. They map fairly trivially onto the Windows console functions.

That being said, I'm now thinking about creating a PowerShell implementation of this.

babarock
For what it's worth, it won't work on my Linux Debian box either...
hagios
This is pretty nifty; I'll be tinkering with this a bit for sure! Nice work.
nwh
Now that's impressive. Piped some stats to it, and it looks amazing.
djbender
There was a tool that prints out one line graphs using utf8 characters. I can't remember what it's called off the top of my head unfortunately.
moe
Sadly doesn't work on linux, uses some weird escape sequences that I've never seen before (\e[1;2;f instead of \e[1;2H).
delinka
Having issues on OS X also. And the shell files in examples/ won't run because they're missing a #! line. Now I'm curious what system this was tested on.
Textarcana
On OSX it works for me using the default terminal. But in iTerm it didn't display properly :(
k2enemy
Sorry if I am just being slow this morning, but how can a histogram have a negative value?
[dead] pretoriusB
What they made is not a histogram, since it's value agnostic. It's just a way to present values, nothing like bins and such is necessary for using it.

So, in case of negatives you can just see it as a bar chart.

hagios
At the point where you're allowing negative values, 'histogram' is probably a misnomer. Allowing for negative values lets you track things like delta, jerk, and so on, which can in turn reveal interesting data which isn't immediately obvious otherwise.
morpher
It looks like this tool doesn't actually calculate a histogram of the data, but simply plots a bar plot of integral data.

So, a negative value means whatever it means in your data.

lsiebert
hmm, the interesting thing for me is there is apparently a c package manager. Though if this won't run on linux, I'd be worried about cpm.
crisnoble
My favorite part is how it will scale to the terminal size. First responsive design for terminal?
elbee
1) In main.c the vals array is statically sized at 256 entries, but entries are put into it mod terminal width, with no guarantee that the terminal is <= 256 characters wide. That will lead to a buffer overflow. 2) INT_MIN cannot be negated -- you should check for that and just use INT_MAX instead.