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24 pointsiondodon17 comments

Another project that confuses the concept of a terminal and a shell. Autocomplete, command suggestion, dropdowns, etc. can be handled by a shell.

The idea is to use web technologies and this offers lots of possibilities regarding functionalities and visuals. Also, having the back-end which is not necessarily only the PTY, can bring many possibilities.

Tabs too. Stop reinventing tmux.

OK, quick experiment:

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https://github.com/iondodon/manter/blob/main/package-lock.js...

I think you linked the wrong file?

Are you asking a question?

I'm new to Svelte myself but aren't you leaking when you call subscribe?

These docs seem to indicate that you might be

https://svelte.dev/tutorial/auto-subscriptions

I'm new to Svelte. Thank you for mentioning that.

Feel free to open an Issue for this.

I love the idea of an IDE-like terminal! I think that it could greatly benefit from using its JS runtime for an extension system: visual autocomplete, syntax highlight, even fancy special effects.

As mentioned in another comment, most (if not all) of this can be handled by a shell. For example, I use fish, and with it I get highlights and visual autocomplete (with gray text, and explanations of what commands do).

I meant something capable of extending the GUI. For example, displaying the autocomplete with documentation and mouse scrolling. Shells can do that, but they are limited to text.

I also want a marketplace where I can browse extensions made by the community, see votes and comments. I think that it fits nicely in a terminal that's like an IDE.

You may like warp then: https://warp.dev

Warp is available only for MacOS at this moment, and it's not opensource. Yes, you are right, Warp is the same idea.

Hi, what about autocomplete?

It has to be implemented. Contribution is needed. At this stage the project is only a concept.

Overall, the idea of building an autocomplete terminal sounds great. This terminal would help developers a lot. Most of the terminals that exist are limited and not very flexible. This type of terminal that you offer gives us an external perspective. So it sounds great! Excellent!

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