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OK, I just installed it on Windows. Right out of the box, it does not recognize ctrl+c. What am I supposed to think about the quality of this?

(I literally have not tried a single other thing. I made a typo on the very first command I wanted to try. I tried ctrl+c to start over, and it did not recognize it.)

EDIT

I gave it another chance. If I start a bash shell, it recognizes ctrl+c, but it does not recognize the up arrow key. Not impressed. Don't get the hype. Sorry.

EDIT2

Is this being brigaded? It's the first result on HN without clear reason, and I'm being downvoted immediately for posting this feedback. What's going on?

https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1127

https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1126

https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1121

https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1129

EDIT3

OK, seriously, what's with the downvote brigade? I'm at -3 now.

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> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think the downvotes may be that you're posing a rhetorical question based on a sample size of one. As opposed to spending 15 more seconds to try a few more things and saying "I tried 10 commands, nothing worked" or "I tried 10 commands, works great, but Ctrl+C is broken on Windows and that really needs to be fixed"

My experience with the Zeit team is that they're very responsive and interactive via GitHub - I'd be surprised if the issue isn't fixed soon

Did you miss the part about the next four things I tried also being broken along with the github links in which I filed the bug reports?

"I literally have not tried a single other thing"

And without clicking through to all four links, there's no indication that they were from you trying things.

So you completely didn't read the part that begins "I gave it another try.." before downvoting? (Yes, it's an edit, but also, yes, it was made less than 5 minutes after my initial post and a good while before you replied and before the downvote brigade hit.)

Anyway, I put my money where my mouth is and I reported each issue that I encountered with hyper on Github (the links are above) before giving up on it (for now). I'm not a bandwagon hater nor a bandwagon fan, at the moment, hyper is not ready for use or worth the hype. In a month, it may be. I'll revisit it periodically in order to re-evaluate my findings in the interest of using the best tool for the job. All these years later, putty remains the most compatible, but I can't figure out how to use it locally on Ubuntu/bash for Windows (if I can get an ssh server working, I could just start a loopback session and use that). For now, I'm using cmd.exe and conemu.

it's probably related to your 2 edits solely about being downvoted

Have you tried opening an issue on it's repo?

Someone beat me to it, and it was promptly closed: https://github.com/zeit/hyper/issues/1121

EDIT: I wrongly stated that the issue was closed. Please see further downthread. I apologize.

That issue looks open to me, and there is no notice in it that it was ever closed. It does however have another issue made after it reporting the same thing and a collaborator closed that issue citing it being a dupe.

Sorry, you are correct and I take that back unreservedly.

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