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I love that the UI can be explored by the user, since it shows available keyboard shortcuts. This is something where GNU screen or tmux suck, because you really

by ktpsns 5y ago

I love that the UI can be explored by the user, since it shows available keyboard shortcuts. This is something where GNU screen or tmux suck, because you really have to lookup how to operate these tools. In some manual or with google.

mtrower 5y ago
tmux and screen both have online shortcut “cheat sheet” displays, fyi.
edoceo 5y ago
I had to print this https://tmuxcheatsheet.com/ https://tmuxcheatsheet.com/
- des429 5y ago
  fwiw, if youre in tmux you can hit <prefix>-?, so for me it's ctrl+w+? and itll show all available tmux commands.
  - arunc 5y ago
    ctrl-w is a very commonly used key to control vim windows. How do you manage with that? I have my tmux leader key mapped to ctrl-z as we hardly use it these days.
    - edoceo 5y ago
      I'm using ctrl+b (xfce-terminal) but also don't use vim
nsm 5y ago
Yes, I think more than "written in Rust", what is attractive about these tools (and other Unix replacements like Ripgrep, FZF) is more their attitude of "we have a lot more computing power and higher resolution/larger screens now. let's have saner defaults, intuitive UIs or larger search spaces (in case of FZF) to actually take advantage of that."
- epage 5y ago
  I will say that one aspect of "written in Rust" is the combination of a high performance language (giving more head room for adding features) and a great packaging story (so you can build on the shoulders of giants, like burntsushi, author of ripgrep).