Is this a take from the 1980s?
Of course cli and TUIs are great. However they aren’t as discoverable and harder to learn than a nice GUI.
Is vim or eMacs great? Sure, but so is Visual Code for other reasons.
cli and TUI suck at drag and drop and copy and paste between applications.
I solved the drag and drop issue with dragon. Copying and pasting depends purely on your terminal emulator, no?
As I’ve found with
nvimusing the lazy-vim config, no. That program, for example, requires a separate clipboard manager if you want to copy between it and your system.That’s kind of the nature of this sort of apps. Instead of implementing the clipboard handler yourself, you just rely on whatever clipboard utility the system already has.
That’s why I have disabeled it for vim. Infact I disabled mouse support alltogether.
Which terminal emulator copies with ctrl+c?
Most terminal emulators will copy with
Ctrl+Shift+c. I’m using foot, if you set this part of your config, it will copy with justCtrl+c.[key-bindings] clipboard-copy=Control+c XF86CopyBut now for most shells you don’t have a keybind to send SIGINT, which is very commonly used.
Exactly
That’s a lot of words to say “GUIs, TUIs and CLIs are good at different things”
How does btop compare against a GTK+ task manager in terms of memory usage when you include the terminal emulator in the btop count? It’d be a more technically correct comparison that way.
Warning: bit of a rabbit hole ahead - I lost an hour reading up on git email workflows
