Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based on Electron

Re:Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based ... by eptcyka on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:46AM (#15302119)

I'm not going to spend hundreds of megabytes to display text on the screen. Not to mention the input latency this will have between keystrokes. The style of autocompletion shown can already be achieved with zsh - autocompletion should not be a function of your terminal emulator, but rather your shell.

However, this is all just my opinion and maybe there will be a load of users, me and people who share my opinions will slowly descend into obsolescence.

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Re:Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based ... by shockone on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:56AM (#15302171)

I wish the same autocompletion could be achieved in ZSH. Then I wouldn't start this project at all. The problem with ZSH is that you have to

* Make a decision you want completion.

* Press tab for it to appear.

* Guess when your token is precise enough to be unambiguous or else cycle through results.

Not to mention fuzzy search.

It may sound as not that much of an overhead, but it's so much slower than what I have in, say, Intellij IDEA.

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Re:Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based ... by teamhappy on Thursday September 21, 2017 @07:01AM (#15302188)

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

Shouldn't be too hard to modify it to display completion data instead of entries from your history.

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Re:Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based ... by shockone on Thursday September 21, 2017 @07:07AM (#15302229)

Thanks, I'll take a look at it. Although, it seems to only show a single best match, unlike IntelliSense.

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Re:Upterm – A terminal emulator and interactive shell based ... by teamhappy on Thursday September 21, 2017 @07:10AM (#15302245)

If you want to show all possible completions that's even easier: https://github.com/hchbaw/auto-fu.zsh

I prefer the other plugin though because it's less obtrusive.

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