What happens when you open a terminal and enter ‘ls’

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• priapus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • MashedTech@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • murtaza64@programming.dev ⁨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

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• The_Shwa@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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

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  • btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • Paradox@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• maxbossing@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not sure, but ai would guess you see your files

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• murtaza64@programming.dev ⁨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)

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