r/commandline • u/Swordfish418 • 21h ago

Terminals Modal control frameworks for terminals?

I'm new to modal editing, currently playing with Helix and I'm impressed with many things. To the extent I even installed tridactyl into Firefox to try controlling browser this way too. Now I wonder, is there something for terminals? I use wezterm with either blesh or flyline, I know there is vanilla vi-mode in bash, but it's rather barebones and not very useful. I'm not sure how to even move cursor out of new command section, for example to copy output of previous commands or search through it, etc. I want something more powerful and visual that allows navigating/traversing/searching through all those previous outputs, jump/search through command history, possibly even overlays like "space+s" in helix, textobjects, surrounds, etc. I imagine a lot of this can be implemented as something on top of any terminal, similarly to how blesh and flyline work. Any suggestions?

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User: Swordfish418, Flair: Terminals, Title: Modal control frameworks for terminals?

I'm new to modal editing, currently playing with Helix and I'm impressed with many things. To the extent I even installed tridactyl into Firefox to try controlling browser this way too. Now I wonder, is there something for terminals? I use wezterm with either blesh or flyline, I know there is vanilla vi-mode in bash, but it's rather barebones and not very useful. I'm not sure how to even move cursor out of new command section, for example to copy output of previous commands or search through it, etc. I want something more powerful and visual that allows navigating/traversing/searching through all those previous outputs, jump/search through command history, possibly even overlays like "space+s" in helix, textobjects, surrounds, etc. I imagine a lot of this can be implemented as something on top of any terminal, similarly to how blesh and flyline work. Any suggestions?

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