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Like pretty much everybody, I can't stand electron. But there's an interesting angle here, which is integrating the thing running in the terminal emulator (the

Like pretty much everybody, I can't stand electron. But there's an interesting angle here, which is integrating the thing running in the terminal emulator (the shell) with the terminal itself. What I'd be most interested to see though would be a terminal pushing curses support forward, since I use a lot of curses-based applications.

jeromenerf 9y ago
Taliing about integration, I like terminals with good mouse support, where one can plumb the selected text with a click. For some reason, there aren't so many, except - 9term from plan9, - tilix or tylix, which has customisable actions for regex patterns - URL, mostly http, in vte based terminal I wrote a simple patch for st that process some escape sequence from the shell to have the terminal aware of its shell current working dir (ocs7). Using this simple hack, one can just cd & ls & select "foo.pdf" & right click to have it handled by one ´s plumber (open, xdg-open, plumb ...) or even right click "path/to/file:line:column" from a log to the editor. This feature is so simple, so addictive in plan9/acme, that I don't really get why it isn't offered by most terminals.
creshal 9y ago
> But there's an interesting angle here, which is integrating the thing running in the terminal emulator (the shell) with the terminal itself It sure results in exciting and interesting bugs, if you look at upterm's issue tracker.
sjellis 9y ago
"Like pretty much everybody, I can't stand electron." Except, you know, all of the folks that say that they like Atom or Visual Studio Code: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-most-popular-developer-environments-by-occupation https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-mo... (Atom and VS Code were specified by 20% of voters in each category).
- sevensor 9y ago
  Well, naturally I'm discounting the opinions of people who disagree with me :)

jeromenerf 9y ago

Taliing about integration, I like terminals with good mouse support, where one can plumb the selected text with a click. For some reason, there aren't so many, except - 9term from plan9, - tilix or tylix, which has customisable actions for regex patterns - URL, mostly http, in vte based terminal I wrote a simple patch for st that process some escape sequence from the shell to have the terminal aware of its shell current working dir (ocs7). Using this simple hack, one can just cd & ls & select "foo.pdf" & right click to have it handled by one ´s plumber (open, xdg-open, plumb ...) or even right click "path/to/file:line:column" from a log to the editor. This feature is so simple, so addictive in plan9/acme, that I don't really get why it isn't offered by most terminals.

creshal 9y ago

> But there's an interesting angle here, which is integrating the thing running in the terminal emulator (the shell) with the terminal itself It sure results in exciting and interesting bugs, if you look at upterm's issue tracker.

sjellis 9y ago

"Like pretty much everybody, I can't stand electron." Except, you know, all of the folks that say that they like Atom or Visual Studio Code: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-most-popular-developer-environments-by-occupation https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-mo... (Atom and VS Code were specified by 20% of voters in each category).

sevensor 9y ago
Well, naturally I'm discounting the opinions of people who disagree with me :)