Comment by __alexs
7 days ago
Mice are good and the terminal doesn't make the best use of the information density possible on modern displays.
7 days ago
Mice are good and the terminal doesn't make the best use of the information density possible on modern displays.
My experience is the opposite. Terminal UIs make better use of information density because they don’t have ridiculous padding between widgets and other graphical chromes that modern GUIs have.
Also terminals support mice. Have done for literally decades.
Ultimately though, it just boils down to personal preference
Modern terminal emulators run at native resolution and support window splitting. You can have the exact same information density (I'd argue that a nice neovim environment has more information density than most IDEs since vs code and jetbrains seem to love putting extra space and padding everywhere now.)
Terminal emulators can only do exactly that. Emulate increasingly large terminals. They are almost fundamentally unable to render something smaller than a single character.
You can use a mouse with a terminal. Also one could argue that you opt into your own level of information density.