No the point of terminals is not to make people that dislike mice happy. They simply were created before mice were common and haven’t been updated at all. This is an attempt to do that.
Haven’t been updated at all??? That’s very much not true. There’s so much going on in terminal world. There are many flavours of modern terminal emulators, multiplexers, shells. There’s a ton of sophisticated terminal oriented software like Neovim for example. Pretty much every single part of terminal environment has now feature-rich, performant and safer alternative implementations. The terminal and CLI world is thriving. Almost none of that massive cumulative effort is directed towards the mouse support. I really think it’s just not what people want.
Yeah there’s more stuff that runs in the shell. But pretty much all the things you mentioned would work on a VT100 from the 70s. This is about modernising the terminal itself.
Hell, Linux terminal emulators don’t even have a “clear screen & scroll-back” keyboard shortcut like Command-K on Mac. There’s no command output history, there are no auto-complete popups, editing commands is still extremely basic (no multiline input for example). The command prompt doesn’t even have the text editing capabilities of Notepad.
And that gives me a real basic text editor. Granted with syntax highlighting on, it thinks I’m trying to do ZSH scripts. But if you needed a ZSH script it would be perfect.
Second, tab works great for auto complete, it even suggests stuff (as long as you have that enabled, or the command supports it. Some clis do not have support for auto complete, but the shell does)
No the point of terminals is not to make people that dislike mice happy. They simply were created before mice were common and haven’t been updated at all. This is an attempt to do that.
Haven’t been updated at all??? That’s very much not true. There’s so much going on in terminal world. There are many flavours of modern terminal emulators, multiplexers, shells. There’s a ton of sophisticated terminal oriented software like Neovim for example. Pretty much every single part of terminal environment has now feature-rich, performant and safer alternative implementations. The terminal and CLI world is thriving. Almost none of that massive cumulative effort is directed towards the mouse support. I really think it’s just not what people want.
Yeah there’s more stuff that runs in the shell. But pretty much all the things you mentioned would work on a VT100 from the 70s. This is about modernising the terminal itself.
Hell, Linux terminal emulators don’t even have a “clear screen & scroll-back” keyboard shortcut like Command-K on Mac. There’s no command output history, there are no auto-complete popups, editing commands is still extremely basic (no multiline input for example). The command prompt doesn’t even have the text editing capabilities of Notepad.
Uh… Have you tried Fish? Or even a modern ZSH? Like oh my ZSH?
I guess I don’t want notepad tools. But I can set my key bindings in ZSH to vi bindings and do things like:
$ cat <<EOF | sparql --data=some.ttl --query=/dev/stdin SELECT ?s ?p ?o WHERE { ?s ?p ?o . } LIMIT 10 EOFAnd that gives me a real basic text editor. Granted with syntax highlighting on, it thinks I’m trying to do ZSH scripts. But if you needed a ZSH script it would be perfect.
Second, tab works great for auto complete, it even suggests stuff (as long as you have that enabled, or the command supports it. Some clis do not have support for auto complete, but the shell does)
Modern shells are pretty fucking awesome.