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by szgupta 1250 days ago
I love this sentiment. Your questions would make for a very interesting post.

While we haven't rebuilt from absolute ground zero, Warp is definitely trying to extend the capabilities of a terminal (emulator) from what's historically been possible. For example, we introduced a dedicated input editor so you can have an IDE-like experience in the terminal. It's fundamentally different from how input is entered in a traditional terminal. But with this innovation, we've had to be careful to ensure that all the input features you expect in a normal terminal (even obscure ones like `alt-.`) work how you'd expect, _and then some_.

Overall though, starting from scratch is hard because we need to stay backwards-compatible with all the CLIs we use everyday.