The Terminal Directory
A handy website that aims to be a source of all known terminal emulators and similar tools.
Dune Shell
Dune is a shell designed for powerful scripting. Think of it as an unholy combination of bash and Lisp.
Braindrop: A terminal-based client for raindrop.io
Braindrop is a terminal-based client for the raindrop.io bookmaking service.
It has support for:
- Adding, editing and removing raindrops
- Searching and filtering with tags and free text
- Checking if a link is available in the Wayback Machine
- And more
The application is under active development and will have more features added as time goes on.
Departure Mono
Not sure I'd ever really have a need for this, but just in case... a fun-looking pixel-based monospace font.
Images - Documentation - iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement
A feature I only recently noticed with iTerm2: it can show images inline in the terminal.
XTerm Control Sequences
A pretty definitive document covering XTerm control sequences.
Textual 0.11.0 adds a beautiful Markdown widget
Reddit thread where the Textual Markdown widget was announced.
Also includes the rather hilarious comment "I wish there were more full blown app examples out there", back when Textual was pretty damn new and barely out of the initial "CSS branch" release.
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)
Useful article talking about unicode stuff.
Page is annoying to read though with daft gimmicks.
La Terminal in VisionOS
La Terminal is now running in VisionOS. Based on the video, it looks exactly like the sort of VR terminal experience I’ve been wanting (albeit in PCVR or Quest native)for ages now!
Tinboard - A terminal-based client for Pinboard
Tinboard is a client for Pinboard, based in the terminal, it includes:
- Add/edit/delete bookmarks.
- Various forms of filtering.
- Filtering with tags.
- Full text search.
Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition!
It turns out that Unicode support in Terminals is a lot more difficult than it first appears. A quick overview of special support for Unicode characters in Terminals:
- "Wide" or "Fullwidth" characters, particularly for East Asian languages and emojis, are codepoints that occupy two cells in a terminal instead of one.
- "Zero" width combining characters used in languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, or Hindi do not occupy any cells themselves; instead, they modify the previous character.
- "Zero Width Joiner" (ZWJ U+200D) reduces and combines many codepoints into a single emoji. This is similar to combining, but encoded in a completely different way.
- "Variation Selector-16" (VS-16 U+FE0F) is a special character that, for specific "Narrow" emojis consuming one cell, causes them to become "Wide", consuming two cells.
Terminal Trove - The $HOME of all things in the terminal.
Site dedicated to building a list of tools useful in the terminal, and categorising them.
The TTY demystified
Some history and details about terminals, their history and their working. Likely very useful for people who haven't encountered actual terminal hardware.
A Deep Dive into the SIGTTIN / SIGTTOU Terminal Access Control Mechanism in Linux
Useful deep dive into all the issues relating to job control and how it affects a running process.
Input: Fonts for Code
Tidy font to remember any time I get the itch to change my editor or terminal font.
Grapheme Clusters and Terminal Emulators – Mitchell Hashimoto
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Okay, it's kinda useful actualy.