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Your comment makes some great arguments about just how awful the traditional ways of working in the terminal are. They're often very clumsy and tedious or require additional tools and foresight, e.g. remembering to redirect output to a file.

I'm not saying that we couldn't do these things in the past. I will say that easy-of-use matters.

Also, a lot of the methods you outlined don't work well across SSH. Extraterm's methods do.




> Your comment makes some great arguments about just how awful the traditional ways of working in the terminal are.

IMHO it's not that awful and 99% of the time you're doing other things anyway.

> e.g. remembering to redirect output to a file.

But when you forgot to do that, it's not the end of the world, just a little inconvenience involving the mouse.

> a lot of the methods you outlined don't work well across SSH.

Which ones and why not? The only one I can think of is xdg-open and that can work with `ssh -X`.




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