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These features are what I use emacs terminal for. What we need are dumber programs and smarter terminals, like Plan 9 had.

• jxy 10y ago
  With acme, most of the time I only need to 2-click any shell code that I assembled in a scratch file/window, then a new window opens with the output. We perhaps don't need smarter terminals either. Look at it in an abstract way, all we need is an easy way to (a) pass a command to some program and (b) display its output. For (a), acme's input to rc through 2-click is really simple and effective, although it's only for text; but for (b), if we want to include anything more than text, nowadays browsers work in such a way, but we need orders of magnitude faster processors to make it usable. I'll stick with text and acme for now.
• cpu 10y ago
  Right on the money. curses needs to die and we need to make better use of our resources. It's eye-opening to explore these projects that "never caught on" even though they had great ideas that we still don't see today. (Granted, those projects truly never gained popularity for other reasons.) I'm glad to see that there are others thinking about these things. The current state of things bothers me enough that I will do something about it, but I'm afraid that I am something of an extremist and that my particular solution won't satisfy many other people. Because of this, I expect more popular alternatives to arise while I am hacking my own.