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by sigbottle 2 days ago
I feel like the main benefit of such a thing would be centralization. Part of the issue with the terminal ecosystem is precisely that everything's so fragmented and everybody needs to support arcane terminal protocols and wrap a billion wrappers around each other. The easiest way to solve this is to be a definer yourself rather than an integrator, which I think is what this is trying to be. If we could actually have standardized terminal extensions in one place (you'd be surprised how many extension codes there are in terminal land) that has a different semantics not from the 80s, but still captures the terminal experience, that would be great.

The 'cleanest' experience I've got for what I want is mosh + tmux and even that has issues (no block cursor for example).

If superlogical's ultimate goal is to revamp the Linux developer ecosystem, all for it. Am potentially worried long term about these kinds of strategies from a political point of view but as long as things stay open source and stay as local dev tools, its fine.
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f311a 2 days ago
There is PR somewhere in the mosh repo to support block cursor. Just build it manually. Mosh is abandoned, unfortunately.
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sigbottle 1 day ago
Yeah I have my own forks for it, it's just annoying since usually I want to just install things on a machine and just "have it work". Mosh is also extra annoying because it depends on ssh and libcrypto stuff, which I have not found working with my current "install all my deps on a machine and run" workflow yet (e.g. from what I understand you basically have to compile from source for certain things that touch ssh and security; I wasn't able to get a portable git install either, instead I just trust the systemwide one and don't use old distributions).

I've found that I'm making compromises that keep integration with existing systems minimal at the cost of perfect aesthetics :(

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mtrovo 2 days ago
Right, but I'm pretty sure this is not the first time somebody thought about solving it.

https://xkcd.com/927/

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dakolli 2 days ago
Just look at the comments, everybody is like "look I built the same thing" LLM people have fried their ability to be original, its kind of nice knowing all my competition in tech has no original thought anymore.
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