Entering text in the terminal is complicated

1. cat9

   1 11 510 7.9 Lua

   A User shell for LASH

   

   I plan to make one day an alternative to terminals. My idea is not fully fleshed out, but I would like to try to forgo TTYs altogether. Use only pipes, file descriptors and job control.

   The closest thing I saw to what I have in mind is this: https://github.com/letoram/cat9/ but more in a way of interface.

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. clink

   2 14 4,215 9.7 C++

   Bash's powerful command line editing in cmd.exe

   

   Doesn't Windows, the most popular OS out there, have a cmd.exe terminal thing? Why isn't that harming Windows?

   The Windows Command Prompt's default experience is worse than most if not all terminals you find on Linux systems. Even in play TTY, you're bound to find that the shortcuts the author mentioned work like a charm.

   To make my cmd.exe bearable I am using https://chrisant996.github.io/clink

   tl;dr You're comparing the choice of wheels on a plane to what makes planes sell more.

4. Windows Terminal

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   The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

   

   cmd.exe or the new https://github.com/microsoft/terminal ?

5. fzf

   4 430 69,976 9.7 Go

   :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

   

   fzf replacing my default ^R has been a godsend to me for remembering how to do things in the shell.

   https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

6. jot

   5 1 3 2.6

   Jot : the hyper minimalist terminal-based text editor (by colmmacc)

   

   Over 20 years ago now I wrote a state machine around readline that meant you could use it as a multi-line editor. Here's a video:

       https://github.com/colmmacc/jot/raw/master/jot-demo.mp4

7. linux

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   Linux kernel source tree

   

   That gets set in a termios structure that gets passed to the kernel's terminal subsystem via ioctl.

   https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/uapi/a...

   > Linux only recently have moved this functionality out into the user-land layer.

   That's certainly news to me. Where did it move to?

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