alt Hacker NewsAs a decrepit old {COMMO} power user, anything that doesn’t give me fully integrated scripting with expect/switch/dialog and a popup script editor, honestly hasn’t been worth investing in further. So I’ve been on Linux console, Putty, and macOS Terminal ever since.
My terminal.app color scheme uses P3 colors on 7% gray rather than the usual sRGB colors so that I can use an OKLCH equidistant palette, and I make extensive use of shift-cmd-up to select and copy “the previous command’s output”. I considered switching for 24-bit color but ultimately I prefer not having to learn a new “rudimentary” app that’s deficient versus my nostalgia just like all the others, and it drastically reduces my stress level when working on other people’s devices that I am proficient in working with an OEM environment.
I occasionally use tabs but for the most part I prefer windows, so that I can drag them around and over/underlapped with other work I’m doing in my GUI. Not a big fan of screen and tmux except as their limited value to me in mitigating ssh disconnects when that’s a concern.
Perhaps your definition of power user is limited to uses aligned with your own?
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Where could I learn more of COMMO? How do current terminal emulators fall short? Wikipedia's article was minimal.[1]
> Perhaps your definition of power user is limited to uses aligned with your own?
I was clearly being flippant. Terminal.app does suck but if you’re happy in it then I’m not going to judge.
For what it’s worth, I cut my teeth on very limited terminals of the 80s and 90s too.
But I ended up writing my own terminal emulator because I wasn’t entirely happy with any of the options available these days.