It looks fancy but after using it for a while I can't really see what are the benefits of using it over something like tmux which is battle tested, fast, robust available everywhere, etc.
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#63It looks fancy but after using it for a while I can't really see what are the benefits of using it over something like tmux which is battle tested, fast, robust available everywhere, etc.
I haven't tried this, but I'm always frustrated that tmux doesn't have sane scroll and copy/paste behavior out of the box. I'm not even sure how to configure it properly to have sane behavior. If this could solve that by default, as well as making it easier to restore sessions I might be in.
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#64It looks fancy but after using it for a while I can't really see what are the benefits of using it over something like tmux which is battle tested, fast, robust available everywhere, etc.
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#65This looks nice! Editing in a proper editor is for sure nicer than Vim - does that work even over SSH without having to install anything? Proper history search also sounds nice. I think I will probably stick to VSCode's integrated terminal tbh because it's well integrated. But if I was doing system admin rather than programming this looks awesome. Don't listen to the predictable HN nonsense. Electron is plenty fast e…
> Vim sucks. Why?
Two main reasons:
1. It has a ridiculous learning curve to get to the same editing proficiency as just having multiple cursors. All Vim users imagine themselves to be editing text at the speed of light while users of "lesser" editors struggle with scalar editing. I have seen zero evidence of that. Anyone of my colleagues that use Vim struggle to do basic tasks because remembering the gazillions of mnemonics is too onerous. Meanwhile I can do anything I want very quickly in VSCode, and with immediate feedback!
2. It infests Unix by being the default editor in many situations (Git commit editing is probably the worst offender). Fine if you want to use your weird editor, but it should 100% not be the default editor EVER. There's a reason exiting Vim is a meme.
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#66"Cross-platform"
Doesn't support Windows...
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#67My first thought when seeing the screenshot was that it feels like it should just be a vscode extension.
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#68It looks really nice! Ubuntu has made me slightly spoiled and less willing to try anything that's not packaged in the core repos, but maybe I'll make an exception. VS Code's integrated terminal is pretty great though.
Back when I used a debian based distribution I made use of https://bedrocklinux.org/ to make use of the AUR. It's not for everyone though.
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#69First time I saw an idea like this was with termkit [1], which I thought was great and was sad to see it didn't get continued development. I really feel like we overlook the ways in which we limit ourselves by having our CLI interfaces be tied to a thing that emulates a terminal from the 80s. The composability, scriptability, history, etc. of CLIs is great, but why should that preclude us from being able to quickly s…
> we limit ourselves by having our CLI interfaces be tied to a thing that emulates a terminal from the 80s
> why should that preclude us from being able to quickly show a PNG or graph a function?
I'm confused by this comment. The quintessential "terminal from the eighties" is xterm [0], that exists today and supports all kind of graphics protocols, like sixel [1]. I use it everyday, and it is very handy to graph functions inline (via gnuplot) and to quickly show png files.
If anything, it is more "modern" terminals that lack these basic functionalities. Bu this is hardly a problem of being stuck with old technology. It is exactly the opposite!
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#70"Cross-platform" Doesn't support Windows...
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