Terminal

The terminal is the heart of Nexis: a WebGL-rendered xterm.js front end driven by a native PTY backend written in Rust. It works with zsh, bash, pwsh, fish, and cmd.

Tabs and panes

• Unlimited tabs and split panes — split right or down and tile as many panes as you like.
• Tab and pane layout persists across restarts.
• Jump between tabs by number, cycle panes, and close panes with keyboard shortcuts (see keybindings).

Shell integration

Nexis speaks the standard terminal escape sequences so the UI stays in sync with what’s running:

• OSC 7 — current working directory tracking.
• OSC 133 — prompt markers, for command-aware navigation.
• OSC 0 / 2 — tab titles. Shells and programs (vim, ssh, htop) update the tab label automatically.

Search and history

• Inline search (find in terminal) with match highlighting.
• Shell history search — a fuzzy overlay over ~/.zsh_history, ~/.bash_history, fish history, or PSReadLine. It inserts the command without auto-executing it.
• Inline AI command suggestions — history-aware completions that never auto-execute.

Rendering and interaction

• WebGL rendering with true-color (24-bit) support.
• Clickable links and configurable cursor (bar / block / underline, with optional blink).
• Configurable font family, font size, letter spacing, and scrollback buffer.
• Drag files into the terminal to insert them as quoted paths — or as AI context attachments.

Private terminals

A private terminal is walled off from the AI: its scrollback can’t be read by the assistant. Private terminals are marked with an incognito indicator.

Recording and sharing

• Terminal recording — capture a session to a file for playback or sharing.
• Live terminal sharing — serve a read-only live view of your terminal (or your AI conversation) to any device on your LAN. Output is pushed over WebSocket the instant it arrives, with an SSE fallback.

WSL

On Windows, WSL is a first-class workspace environment — open a terminal tab straight into a distro. See Windows & WSL.