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We Built Syntax Highlighting for the Terminal Input Editor

by zachlloyd on 11/17/22, 5:36 PM with 22 comments

  • by xnx on 11/17/22, 6:48 PM

  • by airstrike on 11/17/22, 7:10 PM

    I loved this until I read the comments on the original Warp submission. Sorry, I'm not logging into my terminal.

  • by z9znz on 11/17/22, 6:21 PM

    What a remarkable coincidence. I was just looking at alternative terminals today and saw warp.

    I like what they are doing. And like copilot (which I'm not a fan of, but I understand the goal maybe), I think it is leaning toward the real issue - we waste energy solving the same problems over and over.

    Instead of helpers which enable us to reinvent wheels, we should be directing our efforts toward establishing a collection of pattern solutions and tools to compose those solutions into bigger ones which solve specific needs.

    In the terminal, there are certainly a limited set of things we do repeatedly. In fact, much of what we do in the terminal can be done elsewhere (UI); it's just slower or more tedious due to clicking. It's also less easy to automate. But the intentions behind the actions are the same. "Create a new directory <here> name <name> and execute this <script>". Perhaps the biggest challenge is just in naming and organizing.

  • by i_am_proteus on 11/17/22, 6:33 PM

    "pricing" "telemetry"

    Moving on.

  • by NathanielBaking on 11/17/22, 7:04 PM

    Pricing, telemetry, Mac first?

    Nope.

  • by mostlysimilar on 11/17/22, 6:47 PM

    Interesting discussion in the other recent thread about Warp:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33628205

  • by qrio2 on 11/22/22, 5:33 PM

    Please stop shilling your product on this website.

  • by Brian_K_White on 11/17/22, 9:10 PM

    This goddamned spam again? It's not even a righteous product on top of being spam. wtf with these guys?

  • by NathanielBaking on 11/17/22, 7:04 PM

    Pricing? Telemetry? Mac first?

    Nope