How to make me completely lose interest in a piece of software: Announce it as being Rust based as if that’s an important feature I should care about. At least it isn’t a blockchain terminal I guess
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What a sad person.
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#752If you want to use a terminal that is actually open source and doesn't have telemetry, much less only available via signing in with GitHub, use Alacritty, also written in Rust and cross platform. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
I use Konsole. It's written in I-dont-know-and-dont-give-a-shit-why-is-that-even-relevant. It's free, does not spy on me, comes by default with Kubuntu and has great themes out of the box (including the Solarized themes).
C++ mostly ;)
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Three words for 2 tests regarding these features: 1. discoverability 2. wide spread use. Bash and zsh fail both tests.
I love how my previous comment is downvoted with no answer by I assume bash and zsh fanboys when these kinds of features are barely used by users, because they can't be easily found. Use something like fish to see what real feature discoverability for a shell looks like. And I say this as a zsh user that has waded through the mountains of obscure documentation to set it up. Don't fall into Stockholm syndrome and thin…
I have no idea who downvoted you or why they did so. I'm seeing your reply for the first time. From what I can see, our priorities in our tools are different. Discoverability and widespread use of particular features are not near the top of my list. I have read the bash manual. For the tools I use most, I've found it to be a good investment, that has paid me great dividends.
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This sounds like ssh apps via https://charm.sh
Yes. Thanks for this. This is very very similar to what I'm trying to do. I guess more like the subproject https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish than anything. I suppose the difference is that I like the idea of being able to link to other servers and keep a contextual menu bar telling the user where they are. Also, in corporate environments SSH is often locked down because of what it could potentially do. This would…
FWIW, I think ssh apps or something similar could be a very powerful paradigm for people who live in the terminal and a diversity of ideas here would be welcome.
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#757I want to like this, and clearly a lot of work went into it, but the existing tooling here has gotten so good lately, without losing any of the power user affordances. WezTerm is crazy fast with GPU-accelerated ligatures, mcfly has an NN in it that startles me, fzf, rg, bat. Everything has bash/zag/fish autocomplete in it now. tmux customization has become a high art form, VSCode has forced all the best language tool…
This is the closest comment to my reaction. I love iTerm2. I am extremely picky about customizing my tools and I haven’t hit a single road block. It’s on a visibility toggle with one key, nice margins on all sides, tmux, spaceship prompt, a color scheme that matches my IDE, I can hide the title bar if I like. It’s basically perfect. I don’t need error messages with rounded borders.
I am a long-time `iterm2` user, it's really nice and is actively maintained by smart people: it's always getting better. So I won't exactly try to steer you away from it, it's good.
With that said I strongly encourage you to check out WezTerm. It's exactly that GNU/Rust "chip-on-the-shoulder" type project where someone was just like: "I don't care how much work it is".
It's fast, stable, and reliable on Linux and mac OS, it has a much more user-friendly configuration experience than e.g. Alacritty (which is also cool and I used for awhile). It supports tabs and copy/paste and all the stuff you'd expect. And it has GPU-accelerated ligatures. Every other terminal emulator project just gave up on that.
And it's such a cool example of the phenomenon I'm alluding to: I tried it awhile back and it was like "My First Rust Project", but the author kept at it and at it and became seriously formidable in the process. I don't use software because I like the maintainer's attitude, but it's pleasant when the best software has a maintainer who I admire.