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A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins and resources
- NeverTrump 10y agonice list except git is not a shell and powershell is not a terminal emulator :)
- gumby 10y agoI spend most of my time in Terminal (well in Emacs) and don't use much more than I could have had on a AAA (Ann Arbor Ambassador 42x80 terminal). What am I missing out on? This page doesn't say, just lists alternative terminals.
- figgis 10y agoI spent a few minutes making as many mistakes in a terminal I could to give an idea of what zsh can do. I'm not sure if it is what you are looking for but hopefully it's helpful and if not oh well. https://asciinema.org/a/bbis1intm13ya7vw3jyk0a2rl https://asciinema.org/a/bbis1intm13ya7vw3jyk0a2rl Note: anytime something odd happens and things pop up I pressed <TAB>
- camel_Snake 10y agoI press tab in my zsh and it doesn't look nearly as nice. Is that specific to the theme you have running or is it an extension?
- figgis 10y agoBy as nice do you mean the colors and font? If so I use oh-my-zsh as a base config and build up from there. https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Themes https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Themes
- djsumdog 10y agoSo many things wrong with this list. Fish stuff in the ZSH section, the FreeBSD package manager in the Linux section, Cygwin is not a package manager (you still need apt-cyg or sage to install things in Cygwin without rerunning setup.exe) ... Sometimes I see good stuff in these lists, but this author looked like they didn't even really try.
- saurik 10y agoFWIW, I don't see what particularly differentiates setup.exe from apt-get, other than that the former is a GUI; people generally consider Synaptic to be a package management tool, even though it is a GUI, and it is very similar to Cygwin's setup.exe (which isn't like, overwriting everything with a new install: it manages the existing packages).
- toyg 10y agoPeople fear setup.exe because it's confusing. I remember being very very scared to break the existing install every time I ran it.
- lojack 10y agoThe fact that easy_install even exists in that list...
- thesmallestcat 10y agoThe author clearly tried, there are something like 100 different links, and it's BS to suggest that they didn't because there are some errors.
- mixedCase 10y ago>The author clearly tried ...to cram as many links as possible for the recognition without putting the effort into the curation that make these "Awesome" lists worth anything more than a Google search.
- majkinetor 10y ago
- mikejmoffitt 10y agoIs there still no way to make iTerm2 refresh faster? When doing quick scrolling or output, it's so noticeably choppy compared to Terminal.app, or even Xterm.
- Longhanks 10y agoThis bothers me, too. Terminal lacks some features I really want, but it's implementation just feels polished. It's just so smooth, reflows text nicely and renders fonts perfectly.
- daleroberts 10y agoTerminal is great but a major lacking feature is 'true color' (https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728 https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728). If you an Apple engineer working on Terminal and reading this post, please add it, it would be much appreciated :)
- eddieh 10y agoAnd here I thought I was spoiled with 256 colors in Terminal.
- codezero 10y agoDo you use any advanced features like triggers/alerts with captured output? I found that a regex I was using to pop a notif was slowing iTerm2 down big time, removed it, and it feels much better now.
- mikejmoffitt 10y agoZero. I use iTerm2 when I have to use a Mac, where I act as though it's Xterm. This is just out of the box behavior. Older versions had an adjustable refresh rate slider.
- gnachman 10y agoTriggers were super slow in 2.x but are much faster in 3.0. Try it again if it's been a while.
- seanp2k2 10y agoLong-time bash guy, I used to use just git-bash-prompt + a few dozen aliases and functions, but recently got some shell envy after seeing a coworker with powerline on fish. I checked out ooh my fish and it was really hard to get it to do what I wanted; things like saving a function (since aliases are defined in one with ooh my fish) took a few hours to figure out because of how homebrew installs fish on Mac. It was also overly difficult to get ^r rev search working, $(foo) didn't work, the random one-liners I'd type didn't work half the time with fish. I switched to zsh + prezto with powerlevel9k ( https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k ) and within an hour, I had something awesome. Here's a guide on installing it: http://www.codeblocq.com/2016/09/Pimp-up-iTerm-with-Zsh-and-prezto-on-Mac-OS-X/ http://www.codeblocq.com/2016/09/Pimp-up-iTerm-with-Zsh-and-... and I'd really really recommend powerlevel9k. Nothing against fish, but after a few weeks, it was just too hard to unlearn all my bashfulness, whereas in zsh it just works as it used to + had the extra functionality I got with fish + now is even more awesome and useful thanks to powerlevel9k.
- hartator 10y agoWhat's bringing powerlevel9k that's not in oh my zsh? By quickly glancing at it, it just seems to be a bloated theme with no extra features.
- jorvi 10y agoThis. I used to have that setup (Prezto + Powerlevel9k) but in the end I didn't want all sorts of needless config, and it still felt really heavy. Plus, you actually rarely use anything in the framework. Now I just use zsh + zplug (vim-plug like plugin manager) + pure zsh theme + tiny zshrc. Fast as hell, tailor-made and no-nonsense. You can check it out over here if you're interested: https://github.com/jorvi/dotfiles https://github.com/jorvi/dotfiles
- fusiongyro 10y agoIn fish, you do (foo) instead of $(foo), and to do rev search you just type something and press up. To save a function, do funcsave name. It did take me a little while to get used to fish (psub was another thing that took some googling to find) but I don't think I would go back to zsh now.
- dedhed 10y agoI have been using MobaXterm for a while on Windows. I don't see it mentioned very often in lists like this. It could probably fall under multiple headings in this list. http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
- haldean 10y agoI went through so many terminal emulators on Windows, looking for one that could handle SSHing to a Linux box and running tmux/vim/irssi inside the session; MobaXterm was the only one I could find that could handle it. It's a shame it isn't free software, but I can't find any free software on Windows that does curses GUIs correctly.
- blakesterz 10y agoI was so happy to find Moba after my MacBook took a dive all I have now is a Win10 laptop. I'm pretty sure I'll survive for travel now, Moba really gets the job done!
- sbuttgereit 10y agoI use to use Moba and on the paid product to boot. It was the best, but it was very, very bloated and they did a fair number of annoying things related to UI. I have since stopped using Moba and just use Windows Subsystem for Linux... there are still too many annoyances because of the Windows console host stuff; even using tools like ConEmu still fall victim to the issues and introduce their own cruft to deal with. Still, I find the overall experience just more seamless and the least annoying of the options I've tried so far including Moba.
- jasonmorton 10y agoAnyone know if there is any terminal + server side piece that, like terminology or iterm2, lets me inline plot in R, python over ssh? Linux or mac.
- daleroberts 10y agoIf you are running a Mac for your desktop (with iTerm2) and ssh'ing into a Linux machine. These work if you run them remotely as the image gets transferred through the SSH session: https://github.com/daleroberts/itermplot https://github.com/daleroberts/itermplot https://github.com/daleroberts/bv https://github.com/daleroberts/bv Alternatively, for any other terminal emulator with Unicode 9.0 font support and true color support, you can use: https://github.com/daleroberts/tv https://github.com/daleroberts/tv This even includes Windows (using patched PuTTY) and remotely running 'tv' on a Linux machine.
- jasonmorton 10y agoThank you, I will try these. I was looking at your repo but couldn't tell if it would work remotely.
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- tbrake 10y agoInteresting not to see csh/tcsh there. I'm out of the loop when it comes to these things; is it pretty much dead? Did bash 'win'?
- tambourine_man 10y agoI still have a soft spot for tcsh for historical reasons, but yes, bash pretty much won. Specially now with Microsoft's Bash on Windows
- kps 10y agoNor ksh, which was the common shell for the SVr4 line (Solaris et al.). It has some extensions to sh that bash picked up, some that bash imitated just badly enough to be incompatible, and some that bash never picked up (e.g. floating point expressions, which I use surprisingly often). The terminal emulator I use, mlterm, isn't on the list either. Its killer feature for me is a configuration that solves the vim ESC/Alt prefix problem.
- jwilk 10y agoDoes it mean that "awesome" is no longer cool and every curated list is going to be "sexy" instead?
- AceJohnny2 10y agoBecause Awesome is overloaded: https://awesomewm.org https://awesomewm.org ;)
- smonff 10y agoI opened an issue about the semantic problem. What makes me worried is more sexism, harassment, rape culture. https://github.com/k4m4/terminals-are-sexy/issues/59 https://github.com/k4m4/terminals-are-sexy/issues/59
- kitd 10y agoGood to see Cmder mentioned for Windows. Does everything I need and looks great.
- Deinumite 10y agoMy only complaint is that it often explodes when using vim or pagination certain files over SSH. Also ctrl+w by default in cmder closes the tab instead of the bash equivalent, I always have to unbind it.
- navs 10y agoWhile technically not a terminal client, Blink is a mosh supported ssh application for iOS. http://www.blink.sh/ http://www.blink.sh/ Open source so if you've got yourself an Apple Developer account you can build and run it yourself.
- TurboHaskal 10y agoFreeBSD's pkg is listed under Linux.
- stuaxo 10y agoProbably worth opening an issue.
- WalterGR 10y agoI'd love to find a shell + terminal that's aware of the semantics of shell output. One nice thing about (good) GUI programs and websites is that 'results' are quickly navigable. In a terminal, I'd love to be able to drill down into results of ls; from grep output quickly open a file and jump to that match; etc. (Shell output can be in any format, but even if it could grok the output of only specific programs/commands (and also their switches) that would be a starting point.) Does anything like this exist, for any platform? It seems like PowerShell could be a good match, but I don't know anything about its ecosystem.
- jevinskie 10y agoiTerm hyperlinks strings that are valid paths. Cmd+click to open. It is immensely useful!!
- chipotle_coyote 10y agoThis is something standard OS X Terminal does, too, although it's either a right-click or command-doubleclick. Terminal actually does a lot now that it didn't a few years ago.
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- jasonm23 10y agoReally? I can't check for a few hours. If you did... ls cd .. Would all the listed files be clickable in the ls output? This is what the parent comment is referring to in iTerm.
- jstimpfle 10y agoThat exists, it's called GUI... Improving on the text model is almost always premature optimization, though. Consider the incredible cost for an observer to "understand" what you are doing. Insane amounts of work (resulting in lock-in or a product never shipped) is not how the text model could become so successful. Why can tools like grep or sed be so immensely useful? Precisely because they don't need to understand what goes in (other than a stream of lines), what does the pattern mean (other than being a regular expression), and what goes out (other than a stream of lines). And what's the benefit of programs understanding "semantics of output" really? Everything is text. When a file is printed on the terminal, select it (e.g. double-click), type "vim " (or whatever), and middle-click. It's good enough most of the time. When there is some really dry repetitive work, bang out a command-line to automate that for you (along the lines of "while read filename; do vim filename; done"). A GUI can only help for the most common cases. If these are only a minority of cases, GUIs are only crippled tools preventing you from doing real work. (Personal anecdote: I use nothing but a browser and xterms on most days or even weeks).
- jevinskie 10y agoCRT (cool-retro-term) is a nice, free alternative to Cathode and runs on Linux too. https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
- mastazi 10y agoFor Windows, I think Git Bash/MSYS2 are worth mentioning as well.
- electricEmu 10y agoThose should both be superseded by PowerShell for anything realistic on Windows.
- mastazi 10y agoI like PowerShell (lately I like it a lot), but MSYS2's use case is slightly different. The latter, unlike the former, gives you a minimalistic POSIX layer in Windows.
- potomak 10y agoThat list is missing a section for terminal music players. I created one in Haskell some time ago: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-player https://hackage.haskell.org/package/haskell-player
- bcg1 10y agoTilda should not be left off the list. https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda
- jasonm23 10y agoGuake too https://github.com/Guake/guake https://github.com/Guake/guake
- e5an 10y agoNo mention of fizsh?
- therealidiot 10y agoCould do with adding Finch to the list under Communication https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch
- Pete_D 10y agoI would add rxvt-unicode to the terminals list. Its client/server model makes opening new terminals practically instant.
- Anthony-G 10y agoI find it hard to take too seriously such a list if it doesn’t include GNU Screen. A terminal multiplexer really enhances the experience of working in a terminal. Even tmux only gets a cursory mention in the middle of other Tools and Plugins. It would make a lot more sense to give terminal multiplexers their own section (even if there are only two entries) and explain the benefits of using a terminal multiplexer.