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upterm

A terminal emulator for the 21st century.

22Distinct people
24Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
19KGitHub stars
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A terminal emulator for the 21st century.

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HN mentions by year24 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-09-05 22:49:53 UTC to 2022-04-06 00:06:31 UTC.

02468102015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 4 submissions, 5 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC945
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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I'd be curious to see how this plays out. > We expect real-time collaboration to dominate future markets as the pandemic runs its course and forces people and businesses online en masse I'd think that the area for the easiest investment in this problem space wouldn't be on the creation of a new terminal emulator (like iTerm2 or the Windows Terminal), but instead as a piece of software running on the remote server, something like tmux. Imagine instead a tmux that could allow multiple users to connect to it simultaneously, and drive different panes at the same time, or view the commands that another user is using in a given pane. Then, regardless of what terminal emulator you choose, you'd be able to collaborate with your teammates, once you connect to the same server session. When I think about a "Terminal 2.0", I imagine something more li
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ke [this](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/3121). Ideally though, whatever protocol for rich feedback and content embedding wouldn't be tightly coupled between the shell and the Terminal, which I don't believe is something that [UpTerm](https://github.com/railsware/upterm) did well (though correct me if I'm wrong.)
In Hackathon and Challenge to build a new Terminal – $20k investment
On HN 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10176289 Tried it again today, replacing urxvt+zsh for an hour or so. Most of these problems are probably due to the fact they use a custom shell: - ctrl-r (history search) just reloads the electron window and clears everything [0] - does not work with virtualenv (bin/activate just messes up the shell to the point where even `ls` stops working – `Black Screen: command "ls" not found.`) [1] - weird tab completion - none of the "advanced" shell features work over ssh (well, that's expected, since ssh starts a standard bash/zsh/whatever shell on the server) - had to install bunch of additional npm deps [2] to make it start on Linux - `tmux` is less broken that it used to be when i first tried it, but still not without any problems, same for `htop` and `vim` - it reports that some built-
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in commands are present, but they don't work at all (eg. print, source) [3] Plus it's kinda slow. Terminals are hard. [0] https://github.com/vshatskyi/black-screen/issues/260 [1] https://github.com/vshatskyi/black-screen/issues/94 [2] `npm install fs-vacuum init-package-json npm-install-checks npm-registry-client read-installed` [3] https://github.com/vshatskyi/black-screen/issues/600
In Black Screen – Both a terminal emulator and an interactive shell
One? LOL, here are some that I know require ~600MB of dependencies: - http://rungoterminal.com/ - https://github.com/shockone/black-screen - https://github.com/nylas/N1 And there are hundreds of them, specially if they require Babel which by itself requires a significant amount of disk space, but since you were lazy to find these projects by yourself, I will be lazy too and just list three of them, I will leave the rest to your imagination.
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