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Re: Warp terminal – no more login required

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Post by jamesponddotco »

ghusto wrote: post #58
jakebasile wrote: post #4

I remember seeing this terminal emulator, deciding to give it a shot to see what the deal is, and being asked to sign in. I have never uninstalled a program faster in my life. I think I'll just stick to iTerm.

Never understood why people use iTerm. I know back in the day it was because of the lack of tabs in Terminal.app, but tabs were added long ago and tmux was always a better option for that kind of functionality anyway. Genuinely curious because I feel like I'm missing something. I tried it again a while ago and still couldn't see anything I couldn't already do.

My Neovim color scheme doesn’t work on Terminal.app. That’s, literally, the only reason I chose iTerm.

Re: Warp terminal – no more login required

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Post by cess11 »

talldayo wrote: post #55
aimazon wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

in the context of software engineering, yes.

I... it's a terminal. Free and completely functional alternatives have existed since xTerm hit public release back in the '80s. Am I going insane? Why would you pay for this unless you have a workplace humiliation fetish?

Look at their landing page. Instead of switching to a web browser or LLM-shell when you want to query out how to generate some boilerplate you can just type it into your terminal and you'll get responses there without having to resort to Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, like we troglodytes do.

Re: Warp terminal – no more login required

#63

Post by schnable »

netspider wrote: post #9
jakebasile wrote: post #4

I remember seeing this terminal emulator, deciding to give it a shot to see what the deal is, and being asked to sign in. I have never uninstalled a program faster in my life. I think I'll just stick to iTerm.

Just like arc web browser i think this is the worst business model

I would love to pay for Arc, it makes me happy and productive. Unfortunately, it seems like the number of people willing to do is too small to support VC valuations and they are abandoning the product :(

Re: Warp terminal – no more login required

#64

Post by skrtskrt »

dizhn wrote: post #49
skrtskrt wrote: post #36

For those that have to bounce between Mac and Linux for work/personal reasons, I cannot recommend Kitty terminal enough. The main thing that's a big of a pain is you'll probably want to set up a scrollback pager (I use neovim as mine but vim works too) so you easily search the terminal output and copy/paste from it. I use # https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/719#issuecomment-... scrollback_pager nvim -u ~/.co…

I believe wezterm has that feature already. (Like there anything it doesn't have. :) )

Interesting, I'll have to check it out.

I looked at alacritty but I really like using terminal tabs and the alacritty dev is really really against them and I found the dev's attitude to be more than a bit abrasive.

Not that Kovid (kitty's dev) does not come off the same way sometimes, but I tend to agree with Kovid a lot more.

Re: Warp terminal – no more login required

#65

Post by CryptoBanker »

schnable wrote: post #63
netspider wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just like arc web browser i think this is the worst business model

I would love to pay for Arc, it makes me happy and productive. Unfortunately, it seems like the number of people willing to do is too small to support VC valuations and they are abandoning the product :(

Do you have a source for that?

Re: Warp terminal – no more login required

#66

Post by conceptme »

ghusto wrote: post #58
jakebasile wrote: post #4

I remember seeing this terminal emulator, deciding to give it a shot to see what the deal is, and being asked to sign in. I have never uninstalled a program faster in my life. I think I'll just stick to iTerm.

Never understood why people use iTerm. I know back in the day it was because of the lack of tabs in Terminal.app, but tabs were added long ago and tmux was always a better option for that kind of functionality anyway. Genuinely curious because I feel like I'm missing something. I tried it again a while ago and still couldn't see anything I couldn't already do.

Can it split windows too and have some simple way to select the content?

Re: Warp terminal – no more login required

#67

Post by fnordlord »

square_usual wrote: post #30

To people who are using Warp: what makes you choose it over the alternatives?

If I'm remembering correctly, I was using iTerm before Warp. I listened to some of the devs on the Changelog podcast and it seemed worth checking out. At the time, iTerm was getting really heavy and slow for me and I was losing a day every few months tracking down the cause. Warp was immediately faster and prettier so I stuck with it. They're also super fast with updates and responsive on Github with issues.

I honestly don't use many of their features besides being able to ask the LLM for how to do something random in git and getting the answer without leaving the terminal. The way they organize each command+response into blocks is also cool for readability and copy/pasting.

Re: Warp terminal – no more login required

#68

Post by atombender »

ghusto wrote: post #58
jakebasile wrote: post #4

I remember seeing this terminal emulator, deciding to give it a shot to see what the deal is, and being asked to sign in. I have never uninstalled a program faster in my life. I think I'll just stick to iTerm.

Never understood why people use iTerm. I know back in the day it was because of the lack of tabs in Terminal.app, but tabs were added long ago and tmux was always a better option for that kind of functionality anyway. Genuinely curious because I feel like I'm missing something. I tried it again a while ago and still couldn't see anything I couldn't already do.

Tons of features.

- Multiple profiles

- Logging of terminal output to files

- Regexp search

- Search marks matches in the scrollbar

- Quick jump between prompts — it knows where prompts are in the output, so you can quickly scroll to each position

- Window splitting

- Filtering — like find, but filters the window to only show matches

- Triggers: Do an action such as bouncing the app icon or playing a sound when a text string occurs)

- Status bar: Show the Git branch, current directory, etc. — better than custom prompts

- Preserves windows/tabs on restart/reboot, even current directory and window contents

- Cmd-Click to open files and URLs

I bet Terminal.app has gained some of these features over the years , but it certainly doesn't have have all of them.

Re: Warp terminal – no more login required

#69

Post by soneil »

ghusto wrote: post #58
jakebasile wrote: post #4

I remember seeing this terminal emulator, deciding to give it a shot to see what the deal is, and being asked to sign in. I have never uninstalled a program faster in my life. I think I'll just stick to iTerm.

Never understood why people use iTerm. I know back in the day it was because of the lack of tabs in Terminal.app, but tabs were added long ago and tmux was always a better option for that kind of functionality anyway. Genuinely curious because I feel like I'm missing something. I tried it again a while ago and still couldn't see anything I couldn't already do.

For me, it's some very simple things. Like being able to set the alt behaviour separately for left/right alt (so I can have the meta behaviour while still being able to type funky characters)

Re: Warp terminal – no more login required

#70

Post by aimazon »

talldayo wrote: post #55
aimazon wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

in the context of software engineering, yes.

I... it's a terminal. Free and completely functional alternatives have existed since xTerm hit public release back in the '80s. Am I going insane? Why would you pay for this unless you have a workplace humiliation fetish?

There is free furniture on Craigslist.

I don’t care if a tool is free or paid, I care if it is going to make my life better. You can sit in the office laughing at me for paying to use software, I’m not bothered, because I won’t be in the office to hear the laughter, as I’ll be using all the time I’ve saved to do something I want to do.

Pay me $250k/year to write code and I’ll spend $5k of that on a paid for editor and a paid for terminal and a paid for git client and a paid for database client and a paid for rest client and a paid for shortcut app so that I can go home at 3pm every day and spend my remaining $245k on the things I care about instead of being stuck in the office micromanaging my vim configuration so that the nerds will respect me.

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