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i do prefer kitty[0] if i want a modern terminal emulator [0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty
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Foot is Linux only and lightweight, take it as a Wayland version of Xterm with good defaults and almost no emulation options. The rest works in all major OS. Alacrity is all about GPU rendering speed at the cost of everything else (at some point it did not have scrollbars/history). Kitty and Wezterm are packed with features and more difficult to differentiate. They are all good though.
Not sure if you don't consider Windows a major OS, but Kitty doesn't work there.
Still no ligature support. There are better alternatives out there — kitty is what I chose.
Why would you want ligatures? I would prefer to see text as it actually is, not combining multiple characters into one. I can't trust what I am seeing if I know the text might be something it is not.
Also ligatures are optional, you aren't affected if you don't like the feature.
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Me too. Nothing beats the "CTRL + SHIFT + G" option (open last output in less); no other terminal has it.
I didn't even know about that and I've been using kitty for years
I primarily use it alongside tmux and NeoVim.
It says to use a multiplexer for tabs and splits, but doesn't that negate some of the performance claims? Tmux and screen are pretty notorious for slowing things down.
Oh that’s very interesting to hear about tmux increasing latency. I’ve not heard this before but now you mention it, it seems obvious. Could you elaborate?
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Nice, I like lightweight and modern terminal emulators. Just installed kitty and compared it in a sloppy way to foot [0] (by running `xxd /dev/urandom` side-by-side) and foot appears to be faster. [0] https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
kitty is written in Python, which instantly lowers the ceiling for performance by an order of magnitude. I discarded it as an option in the past: the most important requirement for me is the terminal cannot crash, and I can't trust a Python program to do that.
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Nice, I like lightweight and modern terminal emulators. Just installed kitty and compared it in a sloppy way to foot [0] (by running `xxd /dev/urandom` side-by-side) and foot appears to be faster. [0] https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
kitty is written in Python, which instantly lowers the ceiling for performance by an order of magnitude. I discarded it as an option in the past: the most important requirement for me is the terminal cannot crash, and I can't trust a Python program to do that.
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Can you give an example? I've never hit that, but I might not be using it that hard
Any shortcuts with control/alt don’t work unless you add keybindings to the config with escape sequences. Some distros give you the config by default but that breaks other things such as jumping to the start of a command with ctrl+a
All tmux and fish keyboard shortcuts have worked without any alacrity configuration (that I can recall).
My tmux config adds shortcuts to behave like a conventional tabbed window without any issues e.g. ctrl-n (new tab), ctrl-w (close tab), ctrl-page-up/down to navigate tabs.