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		electric_mayhem on June 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ht: Headless Terminal First impression: nifty. Having sat with it a few minutes though, why would I choose this over the classic: https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index or any of its analogs such as: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/google/goexpect https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ https://www.rubydoc.info/gems/ruby_expect/1.6.0/RubyExpect/E... edit: ah. it preserves the UI. This has potential.

andyk on June 4, 2024 [–]

thanks for surfacing `expect` to our attention. I'll add a compare/contrast to the ht readme

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