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Akash Pattnaik
Akash Pattnaik

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The modern age terminal

Hey there everyone 👋!

Surely we all use terminals in our life? (developers only). Yes, so people using terminal, be amazed of something new.

😮 Difference between a Terminal and Shell

  • The Shell is the program that actually processes commands and outputs results whereas a Terminal is a wrapper program that runs a shell and allows us to enter commands.

  • 🧑‍💻 For example, Command Prompt is an Terminal and Powershell is a Shell.

So basically, A terminal is a input-output program that runs the commands originally in a shell.

🦄 Introduction to Tabby

Tabby is a next-gen, modern terminal for developers. It might not be as light-weight as cmd but it is quite productive.

Tabby was released publicly as a open-source Terminal on github on December 23, 2016! The initial version were pretty good comparable to that time. Today, it is one of the most leading cool-UI and productive Terminals.

🧡 Tabby is a highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client for Windows, macOS and Linux.

🪶 Terminal Features

  • Supports various extensions
  • Progress detection
  • Tabs can be formed on any side of the window
  • Notifications are sent when a certain progress is completed
  • Warnings on multiline paste
  • Supports customs shell profiles
  • Supports configurable shortcuts and multi-chord shortcuts
  • Integrated SSH client with a connection manager

🪸 Previews

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  • The themes can be customized according to your comfort zone with simple changes in css files.

🐲 Conclusion

Isn't all this just great? It's quite exciting to know we can always keep coding inside our comfort zone because of all the open-source developers out there in the world.

🙍 Connect with me

  • Mail - akashpattnaik.github@gamil.com
  • Github - BLUE-DEVIL1134
  • Twitter - akash_am1

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