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Interestingly, Microsoft Terminal renders all of these correctly!

by panki27 3y ago

frizlab 3y ago
With the proper width and all?
- dr_zoidberg 3y ago
  I ran a few tests in Windows Terminal. The bomb emoji got width 2, while the motorboat got width 1 and correct aspect ratio, though I didn't quite get to see it properly until I zoomed in like 5x. The family was rendered all as one emoji, cells wide, but left 4 blank cells before it. So it was a bit better than the authors tests, but there's still room for improvement.
xioxox 3y ago
So does KDE's Konsole for me.
foepys 3y ago
Microsoft Terminal is actually pretty good. I was surprised when I configured git bash as my main shell there and when opening it via right-click in Explorer, it correctly translated the path and opened the shell in the correct folder.
- chii 3y ago
  Is this the same terminal that Casey Muratori was complaining about how there's basic performance issues? (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28743687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28743687)
- jlokier 3y ago
  I didn't like Windows Terminal when I used it over the last few months at the last $job because my choices of software were limited and it was better than the Windows Console. There seems to be no way to make the cursor clear and visible on all background colours that I used for CLI and text editing. I ended up having to use a difficult-to-see 50% grey cursor, as a compromise that was better than losing the cursor completely sometimes. It wouldn't send Control-Space or Control-@ from the keyboard (they are the same character, ^@ aka NUL), which is the key used to set the editing mark in Emacs so used a lot. No key combination is mapped to that character in Windows Terminal, and I couldn't find a way to customise it to do so either. Historical real terminals like the VT100, and of course xterm etc, always did so, which is why it's an essential key in some terminal applications. I compromised by binding Control-] to set-mark-command in Emacs but this was annoying when switching between devices. Finally, line drawing characters, boxes, progress bar characters and such had ugly gaps, as though line height was incorrect for them. All of these seem to work fine in every other terminal emulator I've used.
  - tym0 3y ago
    Hmmm, interesting I use ctrl-space as my tmux prefix in WSL2 without issue.
dr_zoidberg 3y ago
Is that Windows Terminal, or have they renamed it yet again?
- sphars 3y ago
  Yeah, just Windows Terminal: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/ https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/
  - dr_zoidberg 3y ago
    I thought I might have missed a rename. Microsoft tends to rename things at random times.

Interestingly, Microsoft Terminal renders all of these correctly!

frizlab 3y ago

With the proper width and all?

dr_zoidberg 3y ago
I ran a few tests in Windows Terminal. The bomb emoji got width 2, while the motorboat got width 1 and correct aspect ratio, though I didn't quite get to see it properly until I zoomed in like 5x. The family was rendered all as one emoji, cells wide, but left 4 blank cells before it. So it was a bit better than the authors tests, but there's still room for improvement.

xioxox 3y ago

So does KDE's Konsole for me.

foepys 3y ago

Microsoft Terminal is actually pretty good. I was surprised when I configured git bash as my main shell there and when opening it via right-click in Explorer, it correctly translated the path and opened the shell in the correct folder.

chii 3y ago
Is this the same terminal that Casey Muratori was complaining about how there's basic performance issues? (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28743687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28743687)
jlokier 3y ago
I didn't like Windows Terminal when I used it over the last few months at the last $job because my choices of software were limited and it was better than the Windows Console. There seems to be no way to make the cursor clear and visible on all background colours that I used for CLI and text editing. I ended up having to use a difficult-to-see 50% grey cursor, as a compromise that was better than losing the cursor completely sometimes. It wouldn't send Control-Space or Control-@ from the keyboard (they are the same character, ^@ aka NUL), which is the key used to set the editing mark in Emacs so used a lot. No key combination is mapped to that character in Windows Terminal, and I couldn't find a way to customise it to do so either. Historical real terminals like the VT100, and of course xterm etc, always did so, which is why it's an essential key in some terminal applications. I compromised by binding Control-] to set-mark-command in Emacs but this was annoying when switching between devices. Finally, line drawing characters, boxes, progress bar characters and such had ugly gaps, as though line height was incorrect for them. All of these seem to work fine in every other terminal emulator I've used.
- tym0 3y ago
  Hmmm, interesting I use ctrl-space as my tmux prefix in WSL2 without issue.

dr_zoidberg 3y ago

Is that Windows Terminal, or have they renamed it yet again?

sphars 3y ago
Yeah, just Windows Terminal: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/ https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/
- dr_zoidberg 3y ago
  I thought I might have missed a rename. Microsoft tends to rename things at random times.