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Projects that are experimental or daringly innovating the terminal and command line world? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What projects are out there seeking to innovate in the terminal and command line space, and improve or revolutionize the terminal environment?

NuShell is one such example, a shell that uses structured data in its pipelines. Many other experimental shells out there innovating in different spaces.
An even more daring example is DomTerm. It's a terminal emulator with more rich rendering. Supports rich text, images, etc while maintaining xterm compatibility.

Please do not shy from answering projects that are very experimental, early stage, break a lot of backwards compatibility or radically change the current way of doing things.

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[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you talk more about zellij? The docs don't really explain much. It seems to be a multiplexer like tmux?

One reason I haven't used multiplexers yet is that I use tiling window managers, and so the tiling is managed by that through separate terminal windows.

[–] jacobc436@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

If you want to have a single window for multiple shells or you want to replace use of tmux in an SSH context, Zellij is exactly that. The plus side is if you work remote from your machine, an ssh connection will feel faster than a VNC session to the same machine. IMO 100% a difference you can feel if you already remote to your work desktop.

I haven’t seriously used it yet but I should. If you’re a fan of text environments it’s worth a shot. I’m still rocking multiple putty windows like a caveman.

[–] it_a_me@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I can't find the blog post. I remember reading something about how zellij's goal was to allow cli apps to create pop-ups, overylay windows and other stuff all in the terminal. Idk where it is though