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We need a better cross-platform terminal! Not editor. The current state of cross-platform terminals is fairly poor. Other than Alacritty[0] there hasn't really

We need a better cross-platform terminal! Not editor. The current state of cross-platform terminals is fairly poor. Other than Alacritty[0] there hasn't really been any new innovation here. [0] https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty

evmar 9y ago
Actually, I collect new terminals as a hobby and the list is pretty long: https://github.com/evmar/smash/wiki/Related-projects https://github.com/evmar/smash/wiki/Related-projects
- matt_wulfeck 9y ago
  What do you recommend for cross-platform, easy to use, nice-looking terminals?
  - molotovbliss 9y ago
    Termius.com I've come to enjoy, it is an electron app but has been reliable on Android, Ubuntu, Win7 & chrome (although chrome app is going away) on Ubuntu it does leverage snap like this editor.
    - chmike 9y ago
      I have termius on my iPad and I don't find it very convenient to use. It lacks a bar with quick access to many special keys we use often.
copperx 9y ago
Agreed. And if someone mentions hyper.js I'm going to throw my laptop out the window.
jhallenworld 9y ago
I think we need a standard which allows terminal application to be as featureful as full gui applications. And then get all the most common terminal emulators to follow it. Terminals have been slowly improving. Bracketed paste is now universal (I pushed this into xterm). Micro is using shift-arrow for selection. JOE uses Ctrl-Arrow, because when it was implemented, Shift-Arrow did nothing on most terminal emulators. So here's an example (pet peeve): in Micro (and JOE with mouse mode enabled), you can select text while holding the mouse key down. If you move the mouse out of the frame, it should autoscroll to keep selecting more text. Unfortunately terminal emulators send no codes when you move out of the frame. (I submitted a patch to fix this for xterm, but still not in...)
aumerle 9y ago
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty and as for moving the state of terminals forward: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/protocol-extensions.asciidoc https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/protocol-ext...

evmar 9y ago

Actually, I collect new terminals as a hobby and the list is pretty long: https://github.com/evmar/smash/wiki/Related-projects https://github.com/evmar/smash/wiki/Related-projects

matt_wulfeck 9y ago
What do you recommend for cross-platform, easy to use, nice-looking terminals?
- molotovbliss 9y ago
  Termius.com I've come to enjoy, it is an electron app but has been reliable on Android, Ubuntu, Win7 & chrome (although chrome app is going away) on Ubuntu it does leverage snap like this editor.
  - chmike 9y ago
    I have termius on my iPad and I don't find it very convenient to use. It lacks a bar with quick access to many special keys we use often.

copperx 9y ago

Agreed. And if someone mentions hyper.js I'm going to throw my laptop out the window.

jhallenworld 9y ago

I think we need a standard which allows terminal application to be as featureful as full gui applications. And then get all the most common terminal emulators to follow it. Terminals have been slowly improving. Bracketed paste is now universal (I pushed this into xterm). Micro is using shift-arrow for selection. JOE uses Ctrl-Arrow, because when it was implemented, Shift-Arrow did nothing on most terminal emulators. So here's an example (pet peeve): in Micro (and JOE with mouse mode enabled), you can select text while holding the mouse key down. If you move the mouse out of the frame, it should autoscroll to keep selecting more text. Unfortunately terminal emulators send no codes when you move out of the frame. (I submitted a patch to fix this for xterm, but still not in...)

aumerle 9y ago

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty and as for moving the state of terminals forward: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/protocol-extensions.asciidoc https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/protocol-ext...