A tactical meme to ask you if there is a terminal emulator that works like a text editor and has universal shortcuts

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  • kitty

    Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

  • More discussion here: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/discussions/3286

  • xxh

    🚀 Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh. Xonsh shell, fish, zsh, osquery and so on.

  • There are various features that make the terminal experience feel more modern. Unlike your meme replies, BASH does support jumping across words with CTRL+Arrow Keys. For remote hosts, you can try xxh. But if you're so callous as to not even consider adjusting yourself to use shift+ctrl+c instead of ctrl+c, well then I really don't know what yo tell you.

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  • alacritty

    A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

  • Relevant wiki Links: Sample Config File (contains keybind syntax etc.): https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/alacritty.yml Wiki Page for Keymapping: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/wiki/Keyboard-mappings

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