What does HackerNews think of cool-retro-term?
A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
Usually packaged by your distro.
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/121322/32070715-16...
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
QED :)
So your terminal looks like snowy channel 3. Fun!
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
I mention it because it doesn't have tabs, saved sessions, or any of the other features tmux handles.
So, it's not a bad fit for heavy tmux users.
- C64 https://style64.org/c64-truetype
- MSX http://www.ateijelo.com/blog/2016/09/13/making-an-msx-font
- Cool Retro Term https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
If you're reading comments on this article, this may interest you.
I just love the look of it. Nostalgia all the way.
[0] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
[1] https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a88479dfa171e61f02f831bff...
https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim (distraction free mode)
https://github.com/reedes/vim-pencil (better behaviour for writing prose)
https://github.com/junegunn/limelight.vim (visual highlighting of current paragraph)
https://github.com/plasticboy/vim-markdown (better markdown syntax)
https://vim-voom.github.io/ (outliner sidebar)
Edit:
BTW, for my truly favourite aesthetic experience, I like to pair this setup with a nice dark theme, a high quality font, and cool-retro-term (https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/) emulating an old school CRT. Is this practical or ergonomic? Nope! But I love it!
(EDIT: There was a "retro terminal effect" released a year ago, and the announcement for that version [3] shows it affecting the whole window. A quick search through the Microsoft Terminal source suggests this new feature is an extended version.)
[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...
[2]: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
[3]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-...
See also the expressed scanlines in the "faked" 80's of the first video in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24398456 .
As for exaggerated curvature, surely we've all run across https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term by now?
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
Sorry for the music in this video, but cool-retro-term really is a thing of beauty:
Obligatory note: Cool Retro Term (CRT) https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term is pretty cool ;)
Unfortunately both the MBP and my current XPS 15 are unable to drive cool-retro-term on a 4k display with the CPU integrated graphics, and they both overheat and throttle if I use the nvidia graphics card :/
It's a really cool terminal though: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
I occasionally like using a very different terminal just to break out of mental ruts. In the past I’ve used Cool Retro Term for its funky looks.
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
And if you push the settings right, you can use it to convince the procurement department that you need a new monitor.
It’s available for Mac even though the blog post doesn’t mention it.
Made a short video using https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term to get an even more 70s/80s feel, but some of the characters don't come out too well...
http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
;-)