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Niko Heikkilä

Spacefish

Almost the same with Ali!

Using:

  • Hyper 3 as terminal app
  • tmux to create multiple sessions and split panes
  • Fish with Oh-My-Fish framework as default shell (theme is called Spacefish)
  • exa as replacement for ls
  • bat as replacement for cat (aliased here, though)
  • ...and many more nice things
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Cameren Dolecheck

Fish is great. I'm always surprised it is not more popular.

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Niko Heikkilä

I'd guess in the past it has been too exotic a choice for daily usage as you would have to chain commands like mkdir newdir; and cd newdir instead of basic &&. Now the game has changed, though, so let's keep on praising it. 🎉

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Florian Rand

Lovely, I'm seeing a lot of fellow fishes

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Dan

I’m curious- why do you like Hyper 3? (I’ve never tried it)

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Niko Heikkilä

Because there is no iTerm for Windows. With Hyper I can replicate this exactly same terminal experience on all platforms.

Well, Windows has a bit different font rendering but otherwise I can just hop between computers and stay productive.

The other terminal I'm using sometimes is the one built into VS Code which is another cross-platform dream.

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Dan

Ahh I see I see.
I may try it but I wonder if it’s a bit of a hog with electron. I like that you can style it with css

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Niko Heikkilä

It's not the fastest terminal emulator out there but definitely faster than Hyper 1 & 2. Impressive how much performance improvements ZEIT has been able to put into their latest release. Definitely shows that Electron apps do not need to be resource hogs.