Eternal Terminal

#1

Post by ofrzeta » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 5:08 PM UTC

Eternal Terminal
eternalterminal.dev

Re: Eternal Terminal

#2

Post by tekknolagi » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 5:40 PM UTC

Does Eternal Terminal have any telemetry? I guess what I'm asking is, does ET phone home?

Re: Eternal Terminal

#3

Post by equalunique » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 5:42 PM UTC

> mosh: Mosh is a popular alternative to ET. While mosh provides the same core funtionality as ET, it does not support native scrolling nor tmux control mode (tmux -CC).

I had no idea Mosh did not support tmux control mode. I was hoping to eventually use Mosh more, but not any more.

Glad to see Eternal Terminal works with FreeBSD too.

Re: Eternal Terminal

#4

Post by harumph » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

tekknolagi wrote: post #2

Does Eternal Terminal have any telemetry? I guess what I'm asking is, does ET phone home?

slow clap

Re: Eternal Terminal

#5

Post by tudelo » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 5:47 PM UTC

I had used ET For a few weeks and it worked great except for when it didn't. I can't blame ET for sure, but I had some nasty problems with my ET crashing, having to SSH back in and fix ET, and realizing that it blew up my tmux with it. mosh has not caused this to happen :/

Re: Eternal Terminal

#6

Post by Uehreka » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 5:47 PM UTC

Since I often complain about bad landing pages, I want to take a moment to highlight a really good one. I arrive on the page and:

BOOM! "Eternal Terminal" the name of the project

But what is-- "H2: Remote terminal for the busy and impatient"!

In a sentence or two? "Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. Learn how to install and use it here."

Oh sweet, now I know what this is. But I'm a power user, can't you also just do this in bash using-- "Here are alternative approaches along with explanations of why we're better"

Cool stuff, is this a new thing or-- "Here's our paginated version history with DATES! BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL RELEASE DATES so you can see quickly that this project is at least a couple years old."

Sure sure, but what if someone on HN had just linked to the most recent release notes? "Let your eye and your mouse cursor drift naturally to the upper left hand corner, where the name of the project shows up and links to the landing page you just spent 5 minutes gushing about."

Bravo.

Re: Eternal Terminal

#7

Post by oefrha » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 5:49 PM UTC

Holy shit, it’s mosh with native scrolling? Why haven’t I heard of this?

Re: Eternal Terminal

#8

Post by donatj » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 5:57 PM UTC

> While mosh provides the same core funtionality as ET, it does not support native scrolling

NICE. I love Mosh but have always ALWAYS hated how it messes up native scrolling.

Re: Eternal Terminal

#9

Post by skyyler » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 6:01 PM UTC

tekknolagi wrote: post #2

Does Eternal Terminal have any telemetry? I guess what I'm asking is, does ET phone home?

It doesn't appear so.

Is it normal for remote shells to have telemetry?

I hope you were sincerely asking a dumb question and not attempting to make a low effort joke instead of discussing the project in earnest.

Re: Eternal Terminal

#10

Post by mikenew » Tue, Nov 26, 2019, 6:04 PM UTC

donatj wrote: post #8

> While mosh provides the same core funtionality as ET, it does not support native scrolling NICE. I love Mosh but have always ALWAYS hated how it messes up native scrolling.

Mosh also refuses to cut a new release, even after almost two and a half years. If you want truecolor, for example, you have to build from source.