Mr. 4th Podcast

For the benefit of mr4th listeners, below are the most prominent features of Terminal Click:

Note: New Feature Coming Soon! To be revealed in time for the podcast release. This is the last one needed to ship the Terminal Click alpha.

  • Native and Cross-Platform: No React, no Electron, no web anything. Here’s the donut program on macOS:

The remaining examples below will be on Windows and Linux.

  • Visual Browser: Skip cd entirely. We guide you towards the built-in explorer:

We offer the same guidance when you try to use ls:

Not shown here is the ability to pin a browser at the top, and to create multiple instances of them. I hope to record them again in time for the podcast release.

  • Output Reuse

The terminal keeps track of your output so you can re-use it in the future. For example, imagine you ran a failed make command and you wanted to search for a keyword like curl. There’s no need to re-run make to pipe it to grep:

Output reuse and the visual browser can also respond to each other. Remember how we dropped our make results into grep? Let’s save that output to a folder instead:

  • Command History: We remember more than just command names. Currently, we also show you the timestamp and final output of any command

Our engine can expose further metadata in a graphical manner: status codes, the environment variables used at the time, and more.

  • Calculator: If you start typing digits we assume you’re evaluating an arithmetic expression! It’s the little things:

What’s Next?

We are barely scratching the surface, and I want to explore more possibilities when the stable version is released.

In the future I also hope to expose a plugin system so you can create your own graphical utilities. For example, what’s preventing you from having a calendar picker to find that one weird command you ran two weeks ago? (Combine that with our ability to remember status codes, command outputs, environment variables and more.)

About Us

Terminal Click is Handmade software currently in development by Abner Coimbre. Intense gaze incoming:

Abner hosting his conference.

Abner hosting his conference.

He is a full-time independent organizer based off Seattle.

Contact

Discord (#terminal-click)

abner@terminal.click