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LSH feels like it's being massively undersold here. The `grammars/` directory of helix is something like 183MB. That would be a non-starter for a lot of use cases for edit (which i…

You're most welcome! Working on it to help serve the whole developer ecosystem has been the delight of my career :)

Y'know, I spent a week investigating doing something similar with the Windows Terminal about 18 months ago: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/16495#issuecomm... There's …

Notably this article was written based on Windows Terminal 1.18. That was before WT 1.22, which included this PR: [^1] which roughly doubled the terminal's throughput. That combine…

It's shipped with Windows since Windows 11. Updates come via the Store (since that's a lot faster than OS updates), but it's definitely preinstalled these days

FWIW The definitive thread on "images in terminals" is probably found in these threads: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/... https://gitlab.freedesktop.o…

No love for Windows Terminal? I know that linux has a much richer terminal ecosystem, but WT ranks a lot higher than a wide breadth of terminal emulators on linux now. Could anyone…

Low key: Loop is actually great. I think it's the first thing I've used that's captured the dream of what Google Wave wanted to be

What complaints do you have with the Windows Terminal specifically? I can get having issues with CMD or PowerShell - they're very non-unix-y. But WT itself is probably one of the m…

Yedit actually was written by a Microsoft employee :P It had some problems however with handling unicode (iirc). Basically, shipping yedit would have required a huge re-write of it…

who would have guessed that we're all lurkers here too :P Hacker News isn't just for linux stans - Windows devs like to hang out here too

That is _technically_ correct (the best kind). There's some plumbing between conhost and Terminal we need to clean up before we can add it to Terminal too. We've got a branch ready…

Has been for like, five years now ;)

We shipped it (the Terminal) with the first versions of Windows 11. I don't think the "default terminal" feature defaulted to the new Terminal in the first win11 builds, but it sho…

Conhost and Terminal share quite a lot of code in fact. The text buffer, the renderer, the VT sequence parser - all that's the same codebase. That allows bugfixes and improvements …

This is a great write up, thanks for sharing. I had never heard of these before, and would usually be totally against a subscription based product like that. But the idea of totall…

Thanks :) I'd say waking up today to all this... negativity? was kinda a bummer. We've been working hard on something that people (myself included) have been asking for _for years_…

Happy to have the feedback! Most of those I've already fixed internally, there's just a 3-4 week delay between me checking in, and it flowing to Insiders. For the other few things …

There are security implications for running elevated processes connected to unelevated console/terminal windows. "New window" mode avoids those security concerns. A secure-by-defau…

I live by a one step at a time philosophy. It's better to make some incremental progress here, now, and open the door for future progress in this space too. Just like the Terminal …

We're working on backporting it to Windows 10. For updates, you can follow https://github.com/microsoft/sudo/issues/2

To answer the original question: I've been at MSFT like, 8 years now? And this is probably the third serious attempt my team has made at Sudo for Windows. (I think I heard of a cou…

Maybe for Windows 2025 we can work with the UAC folks to get something like that. I'm still shocked to this day that we managed to ship this at all. One step at a time :)

Yea, that's a limitation of UAC at this point, and probably not one we can avoid. The "Show details" dropdown on the dialog does however show the commandline you requested, so at l…