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A color for the user, a different color for the hostname, another one for the git branch... It is a directory? Let's add a new color. I think is too much.
I like to use themes like minimal-theme [https://github.com/anler/minimal-theme]. My eyes appreciate it.
I feel like we need a complete rewrite of terminal emulators/bash/whatever. It should be super easy to make a CLI with nice colors, good loading icons, etc. without having to deal with all kinds of color codes and cursor movement. When I press "enter" while a script is showing some progress bar, or resize the terminal window, it should handle it nicely like every other application. I use the command line whenever pos…
I feel like we need a complete rewrite of terminal emulators/bash/whatever. It should be super easy to make a CLI with nice colors, good loading icons, etc. without having to deal with all kinds of color codes and cursor movement. When I press "enter" while a script is showing some progress bar, or resize the terminal window, it should handle it nicely like every other application. I use the command line whenever pos…
I wrote this simple SAS program/job scheduler (https://github.com/PrajwalSD/runSAS) using just bash script (with few utils) intentionally to allow for maximum adoption in projects and just made it more more colorful. In short 75% of the code in there is just handling the terminal (keys, scroll, progress bar etc.) and 25% is the actual load balancing logic.
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I kinda like using tooling with 40 years of refinement. Is it perfect? No. Do I need to resize a window with a progress bar? No. Would it be nice? Yeah, I guess. Am I underestimating the benefits? Almost certainly. But what are the other sharp edges that come with the shiny new thing? Would it be an electron app? Yes, probably. Would it work? Maybe, in a couple years. There would be some major bugs first, and a lot o…
There still some pretty glaring issues, even after 40 years of refinement. Some I think could be iteratively fixed but not all of them (for example I believe #1 requires a significant breaking change to terminals). 1. You can't have an interactive program in a pipeline. For example, you can't do `gpg --decrypt foo.txt.gpg | nano | gpg --encrypt` because keyboard input on the console is handled through stdin. You can…
Instead of `ls` I use `lsd` https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd .
I feel like we need a complete rewrite of terminal emulators/bash/whatever. It should be super easy to make a CLI with nice colors, good loading icons, etc. without having to deal with all kinds of color codes and cursor movement. When I press "enter" while a script is showing some progress bar, or resize the terminal window, it should handle it nicely like every other application. I use the command line whenever pos…
I kinda like using tooling with 40 years of refinement. Is it perfect? No. Do I need to resize a window with a progress bar? No. Would it be nice? Yeah, I guess. Am I underestimating the benefits? Almost certainly. But what are the other sharp edges that come with the shiny new thing? Would it be an electron app? Yes, probably. Would it work? Maybe, in a couple years. There would be some major bugs first, and a lot o…
I would not call the modern terminal the result of 40 years of refinement - mostly for the reasons outlined by the parent poster, as well as those of the sibling posters.
If you look at the modern terminal through fresh eyes, 'buggy and inconsistent and clunky' would be how the average homo sapiens would describe it.
Just because there are reasons for why all of these warts are in place, doesn't mean that the program is not defective, as designed.
I feel like we need a complete rewrite of terminal emulators/bash/whatever. It should be super easy to make a CLI with nice colors, good loading icons, etc. without having to deal with all kinds of color codes and cursor movement. When I press "enter" while a script is showing some progress bar, or resize the terminal window, it should handle it nicely like every other application. I use the command line whenever pos…
I am not looking forward to using a new improved shell written in JS.
I don't need spreadsheets and rich markup in my terminal. I just want basic HCI to work - consistently.