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Re:State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @06:35AM (#45809798)
I love WezTerm! Recently switched from iTerm2 and programmed the hell out of it: https://rashil2000.me/blogs/tune-wezterm.

It has a very extensive Lua API.

Re:How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm on Thursday October 30, 2025 @08:29AM (#45759280)
That's pretty nice! Thanks for the tip, I applied it to my config as well.
Re:How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @08:23PM (#45754896)
Sorry, I ran out of the free Blob Storage transfer quota, should be fixed now
Re:How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @08:22PM (#45754892)
Sorry, I ran out of the free Blob Storage transfer quota, should be fixed now
Re:New Windows 11 test build wants your credit card info on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:19AM (#30542131)
Shhh, Apple is completely allowed to do such things. In fact it is a lifesaver and a UX upgrade /s.
Re:New Windows 11 test build wants your credit card info on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:17AM (#30542102)
Essentially. They're in no way forcing you to give away credit card info. Even the title is editorialized in a way to incite hatred against something that's already present in a competing OS. Isn't there an HN policy against such titles?
Re:New Windows 11 test build wants your credit card info on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:13AM (#30542051)
Lol why is this downvoted so much? Do people get salty just at the mention of comparison with Apple?
Re:The time has come to replace file systems on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:06AM (#30451063)
You can use http://qttabbar.wikidot.com for native tabs and loads of other useful features. Even works on Windows 11.
There are so many (and so simple) workarounds that it almost feels intentional. My favourite one is typing "[email protected]" as email, literally anything as password, and this will throw an error and viola, prompt you to create a local account. Been using this in the latest Windows 11 Dev builds, no MSA required. Even Microsoft Store works without MSA!
Re:Getting Started with Git Bash on Saturday February 05, 2022 @01:33PM (#30224134)
No, Git Bash is a custom, stripped-down version of MSYS2 (with MinGW Git and its dependencies installed). It does not include pacman.

If you want to use pacman you can either use Git Windows SDK, or just plain MSYS2.

Re:PortableApps.com Hits 1 Billion App Downloads on Thursday December 23, 2021 @09:14AM (#29661974)
Scoop for the most part just extracts the archive/installer. Whether the application is portable is ultimately decided by that installer.

That said, we do highly prefer portable versions of applications, due to the portable nature of Scoop itself.

Why would they accept a backslash? Backslash is a path separator on Windows. In most Windows programs, you don't even need to escape the space - arguments can contain spaces and it will understand it, like `notepad My file.txt`

The escape character on PowerShell is backtick, and on cmd it is caret. You don't need to quote everything.

You're right, my bad
Re:WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @09:26AM (#29162131)
You can install SystemD-enabled WSL instances with distrod[0], and they have future plans to allow dual-booted physical Linux distro on a separate disk to run as a WSL instance.

[0]: https://github.com/nullpo-head/wsl-distrod

For PowerShell, the command is:

  h -c 10
As a nice bonus, you also get to see the runtime of those 10 commands, out-of-the-box.
Re:Micro – a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor on Saturday November 06, 2021 @12:10PM (#29131406)
Thankfully, the author of Yori[0] shell has made a modern port of EDIT called, well, Yedit[1].

[0]: http://www.malsmith.net/yori/

[1]: https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2021/03/03/yedit-the-miss...

Re:A study of data collection by Android devices on Friday October 15, 2021 @09:46AM (#28877626)
You can find all the required info here -

https://lineage.microg.org

Oh, I apologize! I was under the impression that your executable would work without the /usr/bin/script workaround. My bad! I was aware of the Cygwin's tmux quirk, but not the script workaround. Thanks again for the detailed help!
Wow, I'd been dying to make tmux work on WT. I couldn't get your tmux.exe executable to work (it froze WT, in both bash and cmd). However, the script method works!
Although there's no mosh-server, some people actually ported the mosh-client[1] to Windows using C#. This client is currently being used in the popular Fluent Terminal for Windows[2].

[1]: https://github.com/jumptrading/mosh-windows-wrappers

[2]: https://github.com/felixse/fluentterminal

Re:Ruby Packer – Distribute Ruby code as a compiled binary on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @02:51AM (#28602602)
I've had more success with a similar tool, called ocra [1]

[1] https://github.com/larsch/ocra

Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI on Saturday September 11, 2021 @07:42AM (#28491130)
`<filename>` from Windows, or `explorer.exe <filename>` from WSL. As simple as that.
Re:Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:05AM (#28353896)
I'm sorry, I might have been misinterpreting, could I you explain what you mean by actual characters? Even VSCode's minimap draws some shapes, but they're too small to discern any characters.

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