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"An editor should be able to manage splits and tabs. It should have a basic concept of some kind of UI pop.." Couldn't disagree more. Of course, it is current
by jacknews 3y ago
"An editor should be able to manage splits and tabs. It should have a basic concept of some kind of UI pop.."
Couldn't disagree more.
Of course, it is currently necessary for apps themselves to handle splits, tabs, etc, because the windowing systems and terminals are so lacking.
But in an ideal world, the windowing systems would handle all that consistently, and the apps could just focus on their own domain, interacting with the windowing system as necessary.
- zozbot234 3y agoIt would be nice if this could be done by terminal multiplexers such as screen or tmux. Some users might not be able to depend on a window manager, i.e. if they're working with a physical VT100 terminal over a serial connection.