terminal-warp-a-modern-terminal-with-ide-features.md

Warp: a modern terminal with IDE features.

I recently discovered Warp. It feels like a hybrid between a terminal and an IDE. It has nice modern autocomplete, multi-line editing, and more IDE-esque features. It's free for personal use and will have some paid collaboration features. The Warp team say all the core features you'd expect from a terminal will always be free. It's currently Mac only, so sorry Windows and Linux users 😢

Features

• One of my favorite features they have is workflows. It's like a code snippet with built-in documentation. There's a directory of public workflows, and you can make your own private workflows. I'll put an example below.
• Another nice feature is notifications when a long-running command finishes.

Here's the video from their website that shows a few features in action:

Screen.Recording.2022-06-22.at.21.15.09.mov

Workflow example

Here's a custom workflow in the wild. The bottom part is the normal input of the terminal. The gray section is the workflow.

Here is the code responsible for it. It's just a YAML file!

This is actually my version of an existing workflow. I thought the original could be improved so I did it.

---
name: "Find all files in a directory that don't contain a string"
command: 'grep -L "{{string}}" {{directory}}'
tags:
  - search
  - grep
description: "Finds all files in a directory that don't contain a given string."
arguments:
  - name: string
    description: The string to search for
    default_value: ~
  - name: directory
    description: The directory to search. Use '*' for current directory.
    default_value: ~
source_url: "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1748129/how-do-i-find-files-that-do-not-contain-a-given-string-pattern"
author: ghostdog74
author_url: "https://stackoverflow.com/users/131527/ghostdog74"
shells: []

Resources

• Warp website
• workflows searchable website and GitHub repo