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rashil2000··on State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
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.

rashil2000··on How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm
That's pretty nice! Thanks for the tip, I applied it to my config as well.
rashil2000··on How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm
Sorry, I ran out of the free Blob Storage transfer quota, should be fixed now
rashil2000··on How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm
Sorry, I ran out of the free Blob Storage transfer quota, should be fixed now
rashil2000··on New Windows 11 test build wants your credit card info
Shhh, Apple is completely allowed to do such things. In fact it is a lifesaver and a UX upgrade /s.
rashil2000··on New Windows 11 test build wants your credit card info
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?
rashil2000··on New Windows 11 test build wants your credit card info
Lol why is this downvoted so much? Do people get salty just at the mention of comparison with Apple?
rashil2000··on The time has come to replace file systems
You can use http://qttabbar.wikidot.com for native tabs and loads of other useful features. Even works on Windows 11.
rashil2000··on Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
There are so many (and so simple) workarounds that it almost feels intentional. My favourite one is typing "a@a.com" 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!
rashil2000··on Getting Started with Git Bash
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.

rashil2000··on PortableApps.com Hits 1 Billion App Downloads
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.

rashil2000··on I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
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.

rashil2000··on Jog: Print the last 10 commands you ran in the current directory
You're right, my bad
rashil2000··on WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly
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

rashil2000··on Jog: Print the last 10 commands you ran in the current directory
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.
rashil2000··on Micro – a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
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...

rashil2000··on A study of data collection by Android devices
You can find all the required info here -

https://lineage.microg.org

rashil2000··on Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
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!
rashil2000··on Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
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!
rashil2000··on Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
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

rashil2000··on Ruby Packer – Distribute Ruby code as a compiled binary
I've had more success with a similar tool, called ocra [1]

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

rashil2000··on Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI
`<filename>` from Windows, or `explorer.exe <filename>` from WSL. As simple as that.
rashil2000··on Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt
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.
rashil2000··on Nvui: A NeoVim GUI written in C++ and Qt
You can already do that inside regular (neo)vim, using https://github.com/wfxr/code-minimap
rashil2000··on CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative
I use LineageOS+microG and practically all apps not made by Google (WhatsApp, Spotify, PayTM) work as they should. Even for some Google apps, there are good alternatives like YouTube Vanced etc.
rashil2000··on Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%
I have used the popular open source NDS emulator - Citra, and it runs like 15 times faster on Windows compared to Ubuntu (NVidia GPU).
rashil2000··on Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy
gdu added that feature just a couple of releases ago.
rashil2000··on Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in bash
There's a pure PowerShell version[0] of this, for Windows, called winfetch. The repository also has a batch alternative for systems not supporting PowerShell.

[0]: https://github.com/kiedtl/winfetch

rashil2000··on Show HN: Hck – a fast and flexible cut-like tool
It's not like anyone absolutely needs it, I was just fascinated by the recent surge in faster and more cross-platform utilities.
rashil2000··on Show HN: Hck – a fast and flexible cut-like tool
Love seeing these modern alternatives to coreutils! Ripgrep, fd, hyperfine, bat, exa, bottom, gdu, wc, sd, hexyl...

Yet to find a GNU 'tr' alternative though

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