The Erlang Shell

[AstonJ]

@Maria-12648430

The one thing that amazes me more than that people can work on those tiny keyboards is that there are people who want to do just that. I mean, why do people who sit in front of screens whose size often dwarfes a cinema like to type on those flimsy things that are stripped of some of the most crucial keys, or cram them in the most awkward of places

Just joking

I think there are two main reasons… ergonomics (low profile and mouse not too far away) and wanting to keep your desktop keyboard as close as possible to your laptop keyboard to make switching as effortless as possible

@Maria-12648430

As different (OS-ish) shells have different shortcuts for different things, finding a common, one-size-fits-all setup will be difficult…

If they are using platform-dependent keys (so the Command key on the Mac) then I think it may be ok? I agree it could be a nightmare trying to find common ground for shared keys like Control and Alt

@garazdawi

On the other hand, I quite like that Erlang has the same key binding no matter if I am on windows, macos or Linux. But I think I’m rather unique in using erlang on all of those platforms almost every day.

Have you thought about adding FreeBSD to that mix too Lukas!?
_{(I’d still be curious to learn what, if any, advantages there are using FreeBSD with Erlang if anyone’s reading this who might know!)}