Modal? The various input modes. Think of them as if you're using vi/vim, except that it's a terminal. Insert mode is just like every other terminal. Press Ctrl+Shift+Space to move to normal mode (configurable) and use many of the vim motions you know to navigate through your history. The supported keys go way beyond what Termite and Alacritty implement. You might find that you'll never need a mouse again (or almost never). For anything that's missing, please file a ticket, and we're going to work on that.
> Certainly I’ve wished the things I run in it were faster, but that’s a different story.
I absolutely agree. Most of the performance metrics that people talk about is beyond visual perception anyways. In Contour we've only done some optimizations the way we did it because it was actually fun to implement, and a nice little challenge.
While I myself feel like i'm pretty much hard-lining into the terminal, I accept that some things are better left to the GUI world, e.g. daily web-browsing I should not be forced to use w3m or the likes. :)
Modal? The various input modes. Think of them as if you're using vi/vim, except that it's a terminal. Insert mode is just like every other terminal. Press Ctrl+Shift+Space to move to normal mode (configurable) and use many of the vim motions you know to navigate through your history. The supported keys go way beyond what Termite and Alacritty implement. You might find that you'll never need a mouse again (or almost never). For anything that's missing, please file a ticket, and we're going to work on that.
> Certainly I’ve wished the things I run in it were faster, but that’s a different story.
I absolutely agree. Most of the performance metrics that people talk about is beyond visual perception anyways. In Contour we've only done some optimizations the way we did it because it was actually fun to implement, and a nice little challenge.
While I myself feel like i'm pretty much hard-lining into the terminal, I accept that some things are better left to the GUI world, e.g. daily web-browsing I should not be forced to use w3m or the likes. :)