Black Screen is an IDE in the world of terminals. Strictly speaking, it's both a terminal emulator and an interactive shell based on Electron. Also, unlike most of the emulators you can meet nowadays it uses HTML and CSS for its UI (exactly as Atom does), which means we can stop misusing unicode characters and make a better looking terminal with appropriate tools.
Black Screen shows the autocompletion box as you type and tries to be smart about what to suggest.
Often you can find useful additional information to the right of the autocomplete, e.g. expanded alias value,
history substitutions for !! and friends, command descriptions, etc. And you can write your own autocompletion providers too!
We aim to be compatible at least with VT100, meaning that all your favorite programs (emacs, vim, ssh, htop, etc.) should work as expected.
git clone https://github.com/shockone/black-screen.git && cd black-screen
npm i
npm startTo create a standalone application, execute npm run package in the project directory.
Note: Only OS X is currently supported, although there are good chances it will work on Linux. We plan to make Black Screen work on all the major platforms in the future.
You can find the list of items currently being worked on in this issue: TODO
See Contributing Guide.