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As a text interface lover and someone who dived deep into terminal quirks, I do think you have a valid point. We need to design a text interface without all the
by xvilka 8mo ago
As a text interface lover and someone who dived deep into terminal quirks, I do think you have a valid point. We need to design a text interface without all the legacy cruft, better suited for modern needs (including colors), and better mixed-mode output and interaction, something similar to what we have with Jupyter, for example (without the Web/JS/Python baggage though). It would require rebuilding whole ecosystem from scratch though, thus unlikely to happen any time soon.
- wredcoll 8mo agoOh hey, if only html was text based. Oh, wait, it is. I'm rapidly developing grumpy old man habits about this gulf between "web" and "terminal". Imagine a world where we do `ls | grep .files.size` or something. I mean, I get why we're here, but it feels so close to giving us all the power of html/css/etc while also having pipes and shells.
- worthless-trash 8mo agoYou know its funny... I had the same point a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005509#47012203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47005509#47012203 I feel like i'm talking crazy pills, computer still, and always will use blocks of memory, which can be parsed how i see fit. I will die on this hill.
- skydhash 8mo agoTerminal emulators are user facing. Most programs don’t care about the terminal and have no awareness of it. They communicate through streams of texts and that’s it. I use Emacs and it’s another text interface different from the standard terminal. Think dired, proced, magit…
- delaminator 8mo agowhat's this for then? https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/isatty.3.html https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/isatty.3.html