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Re:Hyper 1.0.0 by IshKebab on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @05:06AM (#13165757)
> No terminal emulator supports that. Because that's not the emulator's responsibility. That's your shell's job.

How is the shell supposed to make a popup when it can only output text? It can't make popup windows.

> Those are just hard to implement

Presumably easier if you're using Electron though!

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Re:Hyper 1.0.0 by TomMarius on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:48AM (#13176813)
> How is the shell supposed to make a popup when it can only output text? It can't make popup windows.

Not entirely sure, but probably in the same way like other TUI applications, e.g. vim, emacs...

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Re:Hyper 1.0.0 by IshKebab on Thursday December 15, 2016 @04:53PM (#13188814)
Yeah I didn't mean TUI, I meant a GUI popup.
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