[HN Gopher] Zellij - a friendlier tmux or screen in rust ___________________________________________________________________ Zellij - a friendlier tmux or screen in rust Author : synergy20 Score : 28 points Date : 2021-05-28 14:35 UTC (8 hours ago) (HTM) web link (zellij.dev) (TXT) w3m dump (zellij.dev) | jamesmunns wrote: | Hooooooly cow. Those on-screen hints are amazing. I've never | learned tmux commands, and this reminds me of everything I liked | about `nano`. | | I might rebind my i3 keys to match these bindings somehow. | O_H_E wrote: | +100 | | Discoverability is very underrated | mthoms wrote: | I'm only a casual user of tmux (and its iterm2 integration). | Besides plugins, I'm not really sure from the website how this is | a better ("friendlier") option. Anyone? | livre wrote: | It has the keyboard shortcuts right there on the screen so you | don't have to remember them. This is very useful for people | like me who can never learn them no matter how many years we | use the software. The use of [] and hjkl for moving around is | less friendly though, I can use the more intuitive arrow keys | with tmux, this isn't the 80s anymore, the arrow keys work well | in any modern terminal emulator. Also the square brackets keys | only work well in English keyboards. | aidenn0 wrote: | With tmux the leader key (default ^b) followed by '?' will | show you the keyboard shortcuts. There are few shortcuts that | are so common that I want them on my screen all the time, but | uncommon enough I don't have them memorized... | livre wrote: | > With tmux the leader key (default ^b) followed by '?' | | I used to know that, thanks, but you aren't the first | person to point that to me and won't be the last. My memory | is really bad and by the time I have to use that again I | will forget that it exists. For someone like me a command | like that has to be visible on the screen at all times, I | can't nemorize things no matter how much I try. | | To summarize, my problem isn't just that I forget that X | action's shortcut, it is that I forget that X can be done | and that also prevents me from searching "how to do X with | tmux" because I don't even remember X. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-05-28 23:02 UTC)