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Warp for Linux, Rust-based Terminal
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Requiring a login is enough of a misread of the market to kill interest in the product, but looking through their marketing materials, some other stuff jumped out at me.
I'm sure it has fallbacks, but I wonder how it will handle environments where the gpu is broken and cpu rendering is being used...
I mean, yeah? I expect a terminal emulator to be able to support anything that has a stdin, stdout and stderr. The fact that it only lists three shells is concerning to me... Is it trying to do anything fancy with those shells? Will it respect .zshrc and powerline?
If you actually want those features, that's your shell's job. Not your terminal emulator. And presumably if you need these fancy features you'll just use a normal text editor to make a shell script.
Don't care. Let me turn it off or I'm not using your product.
You're marketing a terminal emulator to Linux users who are going out of their way to change their terminal experience. They likely aren't going to agree with you dismissing the command line as "obscure".
This is just
~/bin
andgit
with vendor lockin. Excellent value-add.I generally agree with you.
I, personally, would like to see a terminal / shell / whatever with support of standard, modern text input: CTRL + Arrows to skip words, CTRL + SHIFT + Arrows to select whole words, deleting all of selected text etc. I find it baffling that the terminal – the main text input of my system – uses a different way of text input than any other text field.
~~Good news, your requirements already work in Konsole.~~
Edit: no
I just installed Konsole to try it out. CTRL + Arrows to jump between words works, but this also works in Blackbox and Gnome Terminal. :D
CTRL + SHIFT + Arrows for selecting words, SHIFT + Arrows for selecting characters, nor deleting selected text doesn’t work in Konsole, Blackbox, nor Gnome Terminal.
My bad, I was wrong. The selection mode in Konsole is indeed very wonky. From the manual:
I never realised that for most people terminals don't have intuitive shortcuts. But most terminals use Emacs shortcuts, so if you get used to that it becomes quite intuitive. I know those shortcuts are not universal, but it's not that the shortcuts aren't there, or that they didn't used a standard, it's just that the standard they use didn't become the standard most people are used to.