JetBrains IDE new Terminal Interface

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Post by wmstack » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 11:55 AM UTC

JetBrains IDE new Terminal Interface
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Re: JetBrains IDE new Terminal Interface

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Post by zogrodea » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 12:49 PM UTC

That’s pretty cool. I wonder how JetBrains IDEs and VS Code manage to detect the installed shells (zsh, bash, PowerShell, etc.) in the first place since I certainly have no idea how to do it in either Java or JavaScript. Maybe they write platform-specific code?

Re: JetBrains IDE new Terminal Interface

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Post by d_sc » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 12:49 PM UTC

I like the visual blocking of each command. Cool idea I haven't seen in other terminals.

Re: JetBrains IDE new Terminal Interface

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Post by mattashii » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 12:49 PM UTC

> The primary visual distinction of the new terminal is that each command is now presented in a separate block

Yeah, I'd better like it if they didn't do that. This adds even more visual clutter.

> A new, convenient command history has been added, which allows for filtering and makes it easier to navigate through recently executed commands.

Why is ^r not enough? Oh, wait, they blocked access to that.

> We took full control over the prompt area of the terminal

So much for having a terminal in my IDE. It's not really a terminal anymore, or at least not in the sense that I'd call it a terminal, but more something that just barely fits the nomer of being a command+line interface.

Re: JetBrains IDE new Terminal Interface

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Post by beeboobaa » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 12:50 PM UTC

Not available in the "old" UI? Guess this is the beginning of the end.

Re: JetBrains IDE new Terminal Interface

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Post by wmstack » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 12:51 PM UTC

d_sc wrote: post #3

I like the visual blocking of each command. Cool idea I haven't seen in other terminals.

Similar concepts have existed for a while, such as Warp. The Chrome Devtools console is also similar in having blocks for errors and warnings. I wonder if Nushell can work with it.

Re: JetBrains IDE new Terminal Interface

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Post by tnolet » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 12:51 PM UTC

I'm normally cynical bastard resistant to change. But Jetbrains new IDE styling is really good. I use it in WebStorm everyday and see no reason to move back to the old UI. Kudos Jetbrains.

Re: JetBrains IDE new Terminal Interface

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Post by naitgacem » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 12:58 PM UTC

beeboobaa wrote: post #5

Not available in the "old" UI? Guess this is the beginning of the end.

    You can switch between the old and new terminal in Settings/Preferences | Tools | Terminal | Enable New Terminal.

I'm not what are you referring to?

Re: JetBrains IDE new Terminal Interface

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Post by ivanjermakov » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 12:59 PM UTC

tnolet wrote: post #7

I'm normally cynical bastard resistant to change. But Jetbrains new IDE styling is really good. I use it in WebStorm everyday and see no reason to move back to the old UI. Kudos Jetbrains.

I found for myself that "compact" version of the new UI is not compact enough. And the only way around this is to reduce IDE's font size, which worsens readability.

Re: JetBrains IDE new Terminal Interface

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Post by silon42 » Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 1:00 PM UTC

mattashii wrote: post #4

> The primary visual distinction of the new terminal is that each command is now presented in a separate block Yeah, I'd better like it if they didn't do that. This adds even more visual clutter. > A new, convenient command history has been added, which allows for filtering and makes it easier to navigate through recently executed commands. Why is ^r not enough? Oh, wait, they blocked access to that. > We took full c…

And here I was, thinking of implementing exactly that mechanism in an X terminal application. (haven't seen the JetBrains variant at all).