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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by saurik »

leblancfg wrote: post #10

Recently switched to WezTerm and I'm very happy. Was using kitty before that – loved the set up and simplicity coming from iTerm2. WezTerm is leaps and bounds better in terms of what comes out-of-the-box. My terminal config is short enough to sit all in one screen on my editor. After that, the terminal just... gets out of the way and I don't need to think about it. But the straw that broke my back with using kitty wa…

Yeah: the kitty developer is definitely the sort who believes that he not only knows better than everyone else how to use a terminal, but that everyone else's opinions are fundamentally invalid. That his terminal fails to correctly render such stalwarts as the Linux "make menuconfig" UI and there are no settings to fix it as he doesn't believe in settings is, to me, telling. I then find reading his posts on issue trackers not just insulting, but even "activating" in a way that is really unhealthy, as it results in me feeling a need to "defend" some random bit of terminal usage with just as much vigor, lest he get away with making everyone else sound like THEY are crazy... it really isn't healthy. I can't know for sure--as we don't live in this reality--but I'd like to think that, even if he and I agreed on literally everything there is to do with terminals, that I'd still have the same mindset that I'd rather write my own terminal than ever use his.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by elashri »

steelbrain wrote: post #21

Going to echo some of the thoughts of sibling posters. I'd been an iTerm2 user since I first started using macOS nearly ten years ago. I had really started to feel it slow down lately. It hit the breaking point when I was cmd-tab-ing and found myself waiting for more than a second just for the terminal to appear. Looked around, evaluated a couple alternatives and none of them quite fit my taste. One terminal required…

> One terminal required an account/login to operate, which is a big no IMO, another was written in {Java,Type}Script so simple commands like `yes` would break it due to the async nature of streams in node.js.

Let me guess, that's wrap and Tabby or extraterm respectively?

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by ishaanbahal »

colesantiago wrote: post #11

There are so many terminals out there. Curious what sort of features and other things you look for when looking or comparing terminals like WezTerm and the like? What are your deal breakers and must haves of a terminal emulator?

For me, speed, simplicity in configuration, and no AI is more or less a good start. I moved from iTerm to Warp recently, before switching to wezterm, and the only reason i dropped Warp (despite signing in) was that it comes in your way a lot, the click to focus on blocks becomes a hindrance for me (I hardly care for the previous blocks), the constant reminders in Red to update and obviously the AI prompting, albeit to the side, they keep trying to find a way for me to use it, but I'd rather stick with CTRL+R or quick google search than write a coherent sentence explaining things to a LLM.

I left iTerm because I couldn't configure it to my liking, although there are certainly ways to do it, i just couldn't. iTerm2 is certainly a good enough terminal, wezterm just somehow suits my needs better.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by ishaanbahal »

Terretta wrote: post #28
ishaanbahal wrote: post #25

Thank you for this write-up! Going to copy a couple of things to my config. TIL, Wezterm has a command palette. Wezterm with Zellij becomes amazing with how it just simply gets out of the way, even lets you remove window decorations entirely. I've heard Wezterm has a multiplexer too, but just haven't tried it.

> I've heard Wezterm has a multiplexer too, but just haven't tried it. You're in luck, the last half the post is about that.

Did go through it, bookmarked for use, that's how I learned about the command palette, just hard to break the habit of using zellij, that too with tmux mode :D

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by xrisk »

You can dump iterm2s config into a file and sync it to other machines.

Granted it’s not meant to be edited directly but rather via the GUI, but yeah it’s possible to persist it if you want.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by rob74 »

I originally installed WezTerm because I switched from Kubuntu to Ubuntu and wanted some of the features of Konsole (infinite scrollback, searching the scrollback) without actually installing Konsole (I know you can install it under Gnome too, but it just felt... wrong). And yes, it instantly grew on me, although (as I can see from this article) I have barely scratched the surface of its configurability. My only complaint is that its many features are not really discoverable. Sure, the documentation is really good, and the author is very engaged and helpful, but... one example: I looked up how to select large blocks of text using just the keyboard, I did it once, said to myself "I have to remember this!", then promptly forgot it and now I'm back to selecting text with the mouse like an absolute noob because all in all for the few times I do this it's faster than googling that documentation page again...

(in case you're wondering, the page I mean is https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/copymode.html, not https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/quickselect.html, which sounds like what I was looking for, but is something completely different - also very handy and a great idea, but not what I was after)

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