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That's a bleak outlook to have. Like the author said, you can always just go for graphical toolkits and ignore terminals. Whereas, embracing unix and terminals,
by goldfeld 12y ago
That's a bleak outlook to have. Like the author said, you can always just go for graphical toolkits and ignore terminals. Whereas, embracing unix and terminals, I personally find it an empowering and frugal part of the computing stack: predictable, works everywhere, light and simple. Limiting factors can be a positive thing.
- jacobolus 12y agoI think you are misunderstanding me. I am not calling terminals disempowering. I am criticizing the keyboard handling (and general input device handling) at all levels of the computing stack from device firmware and drivers up through web or curses applications. As a user, it is effectively impossible to get the keyboard to behave the way I want (or even in a way that I can anticipate with some kind of mental model) in every context.