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0 pointsStevePerkins6y ago0 comments

I dunno. An audience that's fine with a 1,000-line scroll buffer probably aren't heavy terminal users in the first place. Before you can "raise the bar", you need to reach feature parity with the built-in OSX terminal, or any of the hundred Windows apps like ConEmu.

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petetttt6y ago

That's kind of what I mean—the audience for this isn't heavy terminal users. You can still raise the bar for them!

fluxsauce6y ago

Just because you don't consider yourself part of the audience doesn't mean this isn't intended for heavy terminal users. I'm using it right now and I'm impressed by the performance with dozens of production logs that aren't limited to a thousand lines of scrollback.

Gatekeeping isn't inclusive.

axelf46y ago

Hey! No need to play gatekeeper. FWIW, when using tmux, a scrollback of 0 is more than plenty.

StevePerkinsOP6y ago

I'm not sure what a "gatekeeper" is, or the concern with it being "not inclusive". I suspect this is Twitter jargon, leaking out more broadly.

Terminal apps are a 1970's concept. We're discussing the possible use cases for a brand new one, which has yet to implement a number of basic features common to virtually all existing ones.

If anyone happens to not need those common features, and does have use cases satisfied by the new entry, then that's great! Your existence is not invalidated, there is no membership card for anyone to revoke.

However, while I'm not sure if there's a contemporary jargon term for expressing this in a single word... you should perhaps avoid "raise the bar" boasts, if you're simultaneously sensitive to anyone else pointing at a bar.

iptq6y ago

tmux has scroll back, just hit ctrl-b [

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