Comment by ninetyninenine
2 days ago
Use different apps. Don't have to stick with the default OS window primitives. omfg. I use loop for macos.
So for some reason a terminal app where you can't even draw a proper line vertically across the screen... somehow the people who make apps for terminal are geniuses in making windowing UIs, more genius then people who want to work in pixels. I don't understand why.
And these complete geniuses are like, NO! I don't want to work with pixels. I want to use ascii characters to draw stuff that ONLY looks sort of like boxes, because that's the smarter thing to do!
And don't get me started on config files. What's better, a menu where I'm presented with all my options? Or a freaking config file where none of the options are presented and I have to look it up in a man page and then if I make a typo often it doesn't tell me there's a problem.
And likely you aren't even using that terminal app in a proper terminal. You're emulating a terminal underneath a GUI which is a huge performance penalty. Modern OS's present to you an advanced interface, but you're too elite to use it, so you EMULATE a primitive interface underneath the advanced interface.
Bro use linux and uninstall gnome or KDE. Throw that mouse into the trash. That's the common sense future of UI according to you?
a freaking config file where none of the options are presented and I have to look it up in a man page
oh the irony. because that is what wezterm and kitty make me go through. i'll have a report soon.
EDIT: here is the report: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44762241
that wezterm config file is a monster. all that, just to have tmux like functionality. well, at least it is possible. that's a massive step forward.
>What's better, a menu where I'm presented with all my options?
You get neither