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I tried different terminals and multiplexers for agent development: tty7, Warp, Herdr... Now my favorite is tty7. It does exactly what i wanted from a modern terminal, what Warp should have become.

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What would you say was the one (or multiple) killer feature(s) that took you away from herdr/warp/tmux/etc. and towards tty7?

It feels like Herdr + Warp. It is fast and has vertical tabs grouped by project, and the tabs are part of the native UI rather than a multiplexer. I also like that it separates the daemon and the GUI - with Warp, I accidentally hit Cmd+Q a few times, which closed all my sessions at once. In tty7, they keep running in the background. Compared to Warp, the SSH experience in tty7 is implemented much better. Also, while I liked Warp is blocks at first, now they get in the way more than they help. Another thing I dislike about Warp is the autocomplete: it inserts a path 3 or 4 levels deep at once instead of one step at a time.

Overall, after working with Warp, Ghostty+Herdr, and tty7, tty7 has felt the most comfortable so far.

tty7 has its drawbacks too - the biggest one for me is the lack of support for switching tabs with `Cmd+Shift+[` and `Cmd+Shift+]`.

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