Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?

It obviously depends on your working environment..? I'd be screwed 5 minutes into my workday having to sign into our PDM.

> It seems like the terminal world is slowly getting abandoned in favor of proprietary GUI apps.

Eh, I'm seeing quite the opposite trend. I see people doing stuff that'd consider using a terminal to be straight up inappropriate for (e.g. displaying line graphs).

And your troubles with Slack is most likely down to it being proprietary garbage.

Since Emacs runs just fine in a terminal, I imagine so.

Although, if you are going to live in Emacs there might be enough terminal there without actually running it in a terminal.

I have done Java in Vim before with various plugins. It is technically doable, but it's also nowhere near as ergonomic as it is to use IntelliJ for example. I would want to put a lot more into the setup before trying to do it full time in the terminal.

> - My company uses Slack's enterprise auth, and all the CLI slack clients I could find haven't been updated in years and no longer work.

https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack is decent.

> - The web is using more javascript than in the past.

cli browsers are probably the only truly unrealistic thing. An idea that I've been kicking around for a while is to build a simple CLI "browser" that uses PhantomJS or similar under the hood to request, load, and render the page into an image, convert the image to sixel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel) and display it that way (or use any of the various terminal emulator-specific features (KiTTY has https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/ for example)). Probably pretty clunky, but it's doable if you're in the mood to write something purely for fun.

> - Mutt doesn't handle multiple email accounts natively for work/personal. The solutions are hacks at best. Email servers are starting to use more complete auth mechanisms that don't work well with mutt.

I don't think they're hacks. You can define exactly how you want it to work. That's a feature, not a bug. Sure, it takes a little bit of work to set up but you can use https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/mut... as a starting point if you'd like.