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I’m not a huge fan of Warp, but I would love for any other terminal to copy its text editor-style input field. It’s so much nicer for 90% of my terminal usage

by dmart 11mo ago

I’m not a huge fan of Warp, but I would love for any other terminal to copy its text editor-style input field. It’s so much nicer for 90% of my terminal usage (long multi-line commands, etc.) And when you do need TUI behavior that 10% of the time, just toggle it off.

bitwize 11mo ago
M-x shell :)
pier25 11mo ago
I loved that from Warp too. Went back to iTerm because Warp was regularly consuming more than 1GB of RAM. I also don't want anything related to AI reading my terminal commands.
- alwillis 11mo ago
  iTerm2 users who want AI integrated in their terminal, including free/open weight models can do that [1]. [1]: https://iterm2.com/documentation-ai-chat.html https://iterm2.com/documentation-ai-chat.html
pseudalopex 11mo ago
The fish shell has multi line editing, completion explanations, and completion and history selection. Terminal integration could make these features even better. But Warp's account wall disqualified it for me.
- dmart 11mo ago
  Thanks for the recommendation! I'd heard of fish but didn't realize that was a feature. It seems quite nice.
seanhunter 11mo ago
Why not just type “fc” and edit your multiline command in a real editor? (Like you’ve been able to do since at least the 1980s). I know I’m going to come across as a bitter old geezer, but with a lot of things like this the “features” seem to be pale imitations of things which already exist and the real root problem is people just don’t invest the time to learn the tools they already have.
- greazy 11mo ago
  Wow TIL about fc. Thanks for mentioning.
  - seanhunter 11mo ago
    Very very happy to help. Enjoy!
johntash 11mo ago
Most shells can help with this. vim mode helps, zsh also has 'edit-command-line' that can open the command in an editor but idk if it has a keybind by default.
- tristan957 11mo ago
  That ZSH feature is builtin to readline, so you can use it in a ton of shells.

by dmart 11mo ago

bitwize 11mo ago

M-x shell :)

pier25 11mo ago

I loved that from Warp too. Went back to iTerm because Warp was regularly consuming more than 1GB of RAM. I also don't want anything related to AI reading my terminal commands.

alwillis 11mo ago
iTerm2 users who want AI integrated in their terminal, including free/open weight models can do that [1]. [1]: https://iterm2.com/documentation-ai-chat.html https://iterm2.com/documentation-ai-chat.html

pseudalopex 11mo ago

The fish shell has multi line editing, completion explanations, and completion and history selection. Terminal integration could make these features even better. But Warp's account wall disqualified it for me.

dmart 11mo ago
Thanks for the recommendation! I'd heard of fish but didn't realize that was a feature. It seems quite nice.

seanhunter 11mo ago

Why not just type “fc” and edit your multiline command in a real editor? (Like you’ve been able to do since at least the 1980s). I know I’m going to come across as a bitter old geezer, but with a lot of things like this the “features” seem to be pale imitations of things which already exist and the real root problem is people just don’t invest the time to learn the tools they already have.

greazy 11mo ago
Wow TIL about fc. Thanks for mentioning.
- seanhunter 11mo ago
  Very very happy to help. Enjoy!

johntash 11mo ago

Most shells can help with this. vim mode helps, zsh also has 'edit-command-line' that can open the command in an editor but idk if it has a keybind by default.

tristan957 11mo ago
That ZSH feature is builtin to readline, so you can use it in a ton of shells.