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As I was thinking about an improved user interface for the shell, it seemed like at some point you'd hit the limit of what is reasonable given the current split
by JoshMcguigan 8y ago
As I was thinking about an improved user interface for the shell, it seemed like at some point you'd hit the limit of what is reasonable given the current split implementation between terminal emulator and shell. Do you think you'll get to a point where you'll need to build an all-in-one solution?
- nixpulvis 8y agoIt's interesting you mention that. I'm (slightly) involved with the Alacritty project, and generally like the layer of abstraction here. If not only to support the existing status quo, but also as it leaves a lot of the platform specific features for the terminal. ANSI, and the other standards are large and somewhat unwieldy though, and there are times it would be nice to do away with it all. As for features, there's a number of things that you could argue for being implemented in either place. One feature I feel is a good fit for the shell for example is saving and being able to recall and/or pipe previous commands, while copy paste might be implemented in both.