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		IshKebab on Dec 13, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hyper 1.0.0 > No terminal emulator supports that. Because that's not the emulator's responsibility. That's your shell's job. How is the shell supposed to make a popup when it can only output text? It can't make popup windows. > Those are just hard to implement Presumably easier if you're using Electron though!

emteycz on Dec 14, 2016 [–]

> How is the shell supposed to make a popup when it can only output text? It can't make popup windows.

Not entirely sure, but probably in the same way like other TUI applications, e.g. vim, emacs...

IshKebab on Dec 15, 2016 | [–]

Yeah I didn't mean TUI, I meant a GUI popup.

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