Essential supplies!

Would be confused if you weren't there. Just two more nights to go!

Love that rule, helps me calm down so often.

Highly recommend reading, "Mistakes where made, but not by me"

It talks about how things go wrong not because a big evil plan, but because people are well, people.

I think it boils down to, who gets to use the keystroke. The local program (terminal app) or the remote program (Whatever you're running in a shell)

That said, asking the right questions. I like the CLI because it gets me close to the inner workings of a computer.

As for copy and paste, I'll just join you in hating the implementation. It's usually on the mouse, so right click to copy selected text and middle click to paste text.

I'm used to it, but that's just 2 decades of Linux usage

So terminal is dumb, by design and if you want things like shift+enter you need to fix that at the remote machine. (Hint if you type \ and then enter on the command line you get the same result)

While one example, it shows the main issue that makes a terminal "special" it needs to send ALL keyboard combo's, like shift+enter, Win+V, etc...

Same issue you have with remote desktop, what buttons are local, what are remote.

For CMD+C I think it might be related to how things are in the non-mac world where CTRL+C is copy, but in a terminal CTRL+C is break command. In this conflict the latter will win because shell commands are what a terminal is all about.

One of the main reasons is that all shells and CLI apps assume the terminal will behave like this. So if you make the terminal app smarter then you might break things on the other side, this causes a chicken/egg issue that's the main reason terminals stay simple.

That's a bit of a history lesson, as most things in Unix. Terminals still act like it's 1980s in that they only transfer text up and down. Except now we have 1GB high speed world wide internet and back then it was a super slow local serial cable. But you know, why not improve on that?

Define editor for me, if you mean when typing commands that's not the terminals job but the shell. A terminal doesn't have access to a lot of the information for cool things like tab completion.

You can try the fc command in Linux, that will open the last command in an editor.

Didn't realize that it was Dutch made. (Thanks for the repost @leeuwenhart.bsky.social)

We used to have tear-off hotbars, not sure why they disappeared. This is from Delphi, notice the ridge on the left of the bar. Then again it was too clunky for your suggested use case I'm afraid.

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