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> 2. Text editing in the terminal works different than literally anywhere else. You can't simply click and mark text, shortcuts are different, etc. One of the
by yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
> 2. Text editing in the terminal works different than literally anywhere else. You can't simply click and mark text, shortcuts are different, etc.
One of the interesting things Plan 9 did differently is that its terminal is rather more like a standard graphical text editor that happens to have the ability to execute a line. As someone used to unix terminals this was super jarring, but I can see where it would be nice.
- pmontra 3y agoI never gave Plan 9 a try so I might have misunderstood what you say but Emacs shell mode works in a similar way.