Did you know that you can use MS Paint within your terminal? 🤯 textual-paint is a program that emulates MS Paint within your terminal. To try it out, install it via pip (a package manager for Python) using pip install textual-paint. Then, run the command textual-paint within your terminal. Check out...

Warp recently released the option to edit commands with Vim keybindings. This setting is now generally available. Learn how to enable Vim-style editing in Warp and which settings you might want to configure. What are Vim keybindings and why should you use them? Vim and Neovim are programs which seek...

From announcing our Series B funding round to being used at OpenAI’s DevDay keynote, 2023 was a monumental year at Warp. To celebrate, we’re looking back at our favorite features we shipped last year! Stay until the end for some sneak previews for 2024 as well 👀 Warp AI The days of switching back an...

Warp’s new Docker extension makes it easier to open containers in your terminal. Try the extension, available in the Docker Extensions marketplace today. No more typing out long container ids The docker exec command lets you run commands inside of a running Docker container, but it requires you to d...

I joined Warp, an early stage startup, as the sole designer in January. We didn’t hire Dave, our newest designer until August. The plan wasn’t to spend 8 months interviewing designers. That’s not a fun way to spend the better part of a year and I was busy enough as it was. We just couldn’t find the ...

When developers switch to Warp for the first time, the first “a ha!” moment often happens when they discover they can use a mouse and cursor on the command line—just like how they would edit text in an IDE. Following that same thread of inspiration, we’ve been exploring new ways to bring text-specif...

Surveys like JetBrains' State of Developer Ecosystem and Stack Overflow's Annual Developer Survey provide invaluable insights into developers' tools, workflows, and pain points. But organizing these large-scale research initiatives takes thoughtful design and coordination. This year, we conducted ou...

Secret Redaction is available on all Warp plans. You can turn it on today by navigating to Settings → Privacy → Secret redaction or by searching for “secret redaction” in the Command Palette (CMD - P). Redact your secrets while demoing or working in public Have you ever found yourself working in you...

If you’re currently using Warp AI or Warp Drive with a team, here’s some good news for you: the free preview is being extended! This blog post explains why the free preview is being extended and what you can expect next. TL;DR – Our new self-service billing system is taking longer to build than we o...

This week Warp launched a new feature every day as part of a “Why Not?” Week. What may be surprising to some is that almost all of the features launched this week were developed during a company Hack Week only one month ago. To recap, here’s everything new to Warp that came out of the recent Hack We...

Now Warp shows you richer information about the commands you’ve run recently so you can run them again with higher confidence. The fastest way to review your command history One of the most powerful features in Warp is the Command Search panel. You can access it with CTRL + R. Unlike the Command Pal...

Warp’s new customizable prompt lets you add useful metadata without touching your config files. In this post we’ll introduce you to Warp’s customizable prompt builder and walk you through how it works. Context in your prompt keeps you from getting lost Custom prompts like Starship and Powerlevel10k ...

You can now create your own terminal themes, right within the Warp app! Upload an image, and Warp will automatically generate a theme with a background image using colors that work well together from that image. Warp community members have created hundreds of custom themes for Warp, manually editing...

Warp AI is learning new tricks! Now it’s even easier to get command suggestions when you need them, and Warp AI can save you some steps when you’re saving workflows to run later. Get AI command suggestions as you type Now AI command suggestions generate as you type and can return multiple results at...

Here’s a sneak peek into what the first few months of my time as a software engineer at Warp have been like. At Warp, all engineers are given three “small” starter tasks and one larger starter project. My first two starter tasks went fine. The third starter task was surprisingly complex, but it had ...

“Have nothing in your [terminal] that you do not know to be beautiful or believe to be useful.” In this post, we’ll walk you through how to customize your zsh prompt so it’s both beautiful and useful when you’re working with the Warp terminal on your Mac computer. Already familiar with p10k? Skip to...

For a lot of software engineers out there, it’s hard not to be a perfectionist. The endeavor of programming dictates a perfectionist mindset – the code must be written without error, else the compiler will fail. A forgotten semicolon or indent can lead to a window littered with red underlines. A PR ...

Today I’m excited to make two announcements about Warp. To start, we’re launching Warp Drive, a major update to Warp that introduces team collaboration to the terminal for the first time. Second, we are announcing a Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital, which will help us fulfill our missio...

If you’ve been writing Python for any amount of time, you’ve probably run into pip and virtualenv, and venv. Maybe you’ve used pyenv too, and Pipenv, and for the data scientists out there, Anaconda. If you’ve been at it for a while… remember disutils and easy_install? Poetry is one tool that’s emerg...

Subshell support is here! Now you can “Warpify” your bash, zsh, or fish subshells to enable all the core features you’d expect from Warp, even when you’re working in a nested session. What counts as a subshell? The classic definition of a subshell is any child process launched by a shell or shell sc...

Grids - two-dimensional arrays of characters - are the universal building blocks of terminals. The basic operations we expect from our terminals - entering a command, receiving output, scrolling through a file - are, at their core, operations on grids. This piece is an attempt at explaining the term...

This article describes my best guess of how productivity apps will work in a future where Generative AI is everywhere. I’m writing this from the perspective of someone who is currently building a productivity app, so it’s been on my mind a lot lately. By productivity apps, I mean things like Figma, ...

Today we’re releasing two new modes for command line input position in the Warp terminal: input starting at the top and input pinned to the top. This has been one of the most highly requested features for Warp since the beta launch, and we’re so glad to make this available for Warp developers. Let’s...

Recently, while working on the ability to drag tabs in Warp, I ran into a major blocker: trying to drag an individual tab would instead drag the entire window around. Tracking down the source of that bug took more than a week of investigation and experimentation, but ultimately was fixed in a pull r...

Today I’m excited to share Warp AI, AI that's built into the terminal to make you more powerful as you work. Currently in beta and available for free preview, Warp AI is available to try today in the latest version of Warp. Download warp Watch this demo video to see it in action: The fastest way to ...

Last quarter, we created a “core-pod” engineering team that has slowly been tackling core improvements, like bug fixes and performance updates, as well commonly asked feature requests sourced through Github and Twitter. Though they seem like small changes, each one has a big impact on Warp’s usabili...

What Makes Rust Unique? Why is UI in Rust So Hard? Functional UI to the Rescue If you’ve read Hacker News recently, it’s hard to not think that Rust is the future: it’s being used in the Linux kernel and in the Android OS, by AWS for critical infrastructure, and in ChromeOS and Firefox. However, as ...

Introduction History - From Teletypes to Terminal Emulators‍ Opening the Terminal App‍ What Needs to Be Initialized‍ Creating a “PTY”‍ Spawning the Shell Shell Initialization Login vs Non-login Shells Running a command Entering keystrokes Hitting Enter Parsing a command Returning output Escape Seque...

‍Why We Built Syntax Highlighting‍ ‍Styling Text Within Warp‍ Command Parsing‍ Launching The Features Why We Built Syntax Highlighting Command entry is the cornerstone of any terminal - we wanted to make sure users had the best experience possible when crafting commands. The major pain points we wer...

This post is about why terminal-based input seems stuck in the 80s.  If you’ve ever banged your head against the wall trying to edit a command, read on… Problems with input editing in the terminal Why doesn’t the terminal have IDE-style text editing? How terminal input works The limits of TUIs Is th...