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by caioricciuti 30 days ago
I keep gravitating toward similar setups. Once you remove the option to fiddle with fonts and layouts, you're left with just the writing. Console-only Debian on an old laptop is about as distraction-free as it gets without going full typewriter.
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The only thing holding me back from tty as desktop environment is terminal alt modes - i find it annoying when nvim leaves behind a ghost of itself
Doesn’t tmux support alternate screen. You could run everything in a tmux session and get alternate screen that way.
ah, great idea. I stopped using a multiplexer when i switched to using a terminal with tabs - thank you for the tip