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I don't know if I care about collaboration or the division into blocks, but there is something to be said about how inputting text into a terminal is a complete

I don't know if I care about collaboration or the division into blocks, but there is something to be said about how inputting text into a terminal is a completely different mode of operation. I'm alright at getting around in a text editor with system-level keyboard shortcuts, but as soon as I'm typing into a terminal input buffer I feel like I'm in a weird uncanny valley version of typing. Like how I can't do shift + left/right to highlight text and instead it throws in some hexidecimal number that I then have to delete.

flib 5y ago
Anyone have a better input control for terminals? I have this same issue and have never been able to better it.
- yunohn 5y ago
  +1, I can salvage some level of text editing functionality with a black-box incantation of bash settings, but it never feels perfect and half of the shortcuts still fail to work. Basic stuff - like jumping/selecting words, going to the start/end of the line, anything really - needs configuration. Even worse, half of it breaks when I ssh into another machine.
  - eddieh 5y ago
    At the shell prompt type Ctrl-X Ctrl-E to edit in your $EDITOR
    - yunohn 5y ago
      That’s already more effort than not needing to do anything, because the terminal isn’t a weirdo text input relative to my IDE/editor.
      - eddieh 5y ago
        I agree. That’s why I mostly use Eshell in Emacs, but if for some reason I’m in a stand-alone terminal emulator and need some advanced editing capabilities ^X ^E saves the day by firing up Emacs on the current input.