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I tried to use alacritty in the past, but moved to wezterm eventually, because of it's superior customizability and features.
Wezterm gives you basic stuff like scrollbars that Alacritty refuses to do: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/775
I use tmux for scrollback, panes, tabs, etc. So I'm happy there is an option for a barebones GPU terminal.
I moved to alacritty from gnome-terminal. Wasn't for latency or throughput - I didn't notice any difference in latency, and difference in throughput is only visible when cat'ing 3MB of text. However, for me the selling point was a text config file, which I can edit, backup, or store in git (unlike gnome-terminal, where customization was done either in GUI or in gconf, and while it's also text files somewhere they are…
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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.
There still are no scrollbars in Alacritty: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/775 Use Wezterm is you want a modern rust based terminal with basic nice stuff like scrollbars.
Excellent documentation, fast and pretty much all the bells and whistles you could want in a modern terminal.
Alacritty is cool and deserves the attention but I think wezterm totally underrated and does not get enough.
Why? Did you try both and what did you think?
What I can say is, that I find wezterm configuration quite pleasant. Overall I think they are in the same league but Alacrity gets a lot more attention and that's why I like to remind people that there is wezterm too.
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Me too. Nothing beats the "CTRL + SHIFT + G" option (open last output in less); no other terminal has it.
iTerm2: cmd+shift+a = select output of last command. I can then cmd+c, open whatever editor I want (or `pbpaste | less` if I want `less`).
Alacritty, foot, wezterm, kitty form this block of "nextgen" terminal emulators. I do find them difficult to differentiate. I personally use foot as my daily driver, but that is just because alacritty happened to have some issues with nvidia drivers (bleh). But I chalk that up to nvidia, not alacritty.
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.
https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/289#issuecomme...
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Wezterm gives you basic stuff like scrollbars that Alacritty refuses to do: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/775
I'm glad Alacritty is so conservative with adding features. There are plenty of options for "feature packed" terminals. I use tmux for scrollback, panes, tabs, etc. So I'm happy there is an option for a barebones GPU terminal.
Moved to Alacritty from iTerm2 recently. The biggest plus was the simple text config. I actively make a lot of changes to my config (always experimenting with different shortcuts and other things) and updating configs on multiple machines (work and personal) became a headache. This solved that for me; can just commit any changes to the text file and pull on other machine.
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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.
Some writing systems like the Arabic script require ligatures for correct text rendering. I think supporting the third most widely used language worldwide is reasonable. Also ligatures are optional, you aren't affected if you don't like the feature.
I guess I'm surprised that such a crucial feature isn't standard in everything if you can't even properly display a common language like Arabic without it.