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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not related to the article, but I really wish Warp was at least partially open source. If the client I was open I woule love to be able to use it without the feature online features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also warp is slooooow.... And like I thought iTerm was fast and then discovered how much battery on my m1 Mac it was eating. I'm just a kitty user in the end with good zsh extensions managed by antigen(oh-my-zsh is bloated) and I'm living the good life.

[–] murtaza64 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Last time I used warp it also wasn't super customizable. I like messing with the prompt and stuff. I wonder if that's changed. I did get a t-shirt from them for doing a user interview though :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting read, thanks for posting. I hadn't considered how predictive text works in a terminal emulator and its cool to see how that works as well as getting a better understanding of child processes and what commands would/wouldn't start one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unix loves to fork processes. So you get lots and lots of processes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Only system I've used that loves processes more than Unix is Erlang

[–] murtaza64 1 points 1 year ago

This is a great deep dive! I am curious how difficult/slow it is to extend the modern xterm interface. For example, I saw that some terminals now support squiggly underlines for errors. What would it take to build a terminal (and associated interface) that supported things like text size? (Of course it would break a lot of applications that treat the screen as a two dimensional grid)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure, but i would guess you see your files