On: ht: Headless Terminal

[Zambyte]

I don't think you can reasonably use expect with TUIs, but you can use this with TUIs.

[andyk → Zambyte]

I tried to contrast to `expect` in a couple of my other responses, but yeah this is my sense too after looking briefly at `expect` - that ht always transparently sets up a terminal for you under the hood and you interact with that so you can always grab a screenshot of any terminal UI.

I don’t think `expect` is targeted at this use case (though I am only learning about `expect` right now so could be wrong)

[sesm → andyk]

Is it fair to say that 'expect vs ht' is the same as 'curl vs headless browser'?

[ku1ik → sesm]

I believe it’s a pretty good analogy, yes.

[ComputerGuru → Zambyte]

fish-shell does for its integration tests, and yes, it’s brutal :)