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Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by zoidb » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 2:46 PM UTC

Nice to see wezterm on the frontpage! For anyone giving it try beware that link detection doesn't work super well for links containing a `)` character which is something you run into frequently on markdown documents. More info in https://github.com/wez/wezterm/pull/4212 which has a workaround.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by tjoff » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 2:47 PM UTC

jasonjayr wrote: post #46

bdhcuidbebe wrote: post #16

Whats not to like of wezterm?? My favorite and often overlooked feature is that wezterm is fully cross os, so if you work like me in Linux, macOS and Windows, then you can just learn wezterm and be done. I even share large parts of my terminal config across os:es.

I used wezterm a long while after switching from urxvt. There was a GPU memory leak or something, becuase after opening a bunch of terminals, I found that Graphics in firefox started lagging and dragging. I switched to kitty (And Microsoft Terminal on windows), but I use tmux inside (apparently much to the authors annoyance). I should wezterm another look ...

I've had similar issues the last few months and have had to switch back to alacritty on every machine I own.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by eviks » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 2:47 PM UTC

adem wrote: post #41

I tried WezTerm on Windows because I was looking for a terminal with ligature support and lower input latency than Windows Terminal. Unfortunately, it still had higher input latency than cmd.exe. The only terminal with ligature support that comes close in terms of input latency is contour ( https://contour-terminal.org/ ).

did you measure latency? Curious as to how big the difference is

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by acedTrex » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 2:48 PM UTC

actinium226 wrote: post #43

saurik wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 tra…

I guess this is what people mean when they say a piece of software is "opinionated"?

yep, it is his project. Those that like his opinions will like his software. those that do not will look elsewhere. The beauty of open source

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by awesomelvin » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 2:48 PM UTC

bloopernova wrote: post #45

Oh, very cool that it uses Lua for its configuration. That opens up a massive potential for new behaviours and customization. Emacs uses Lisp in a similar way. What other applications use a programming language for their configuration?

Not sure if it counts but the suckless project (e.g. st or dwm) use C (its source code) as config :)

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by alberth » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 2:49 PM UTC

lytedev wrote: post #42

alberth wrote: post #39

OT: I'm most excited by Ghostty (created by the founder of HashiCorp). https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh

What are you excited about concerning Ghostty? I revisit the project every once in a while, because I think Zig has a wonderful and bright future, but I don't think I could ever use a terminal emulator that isn't completely open-source. WezTerm has an _enormous_ leg up over Ghostty in this regard IMO.

> Ghostty is still a private project. I plan to open source it one day and share it with more people but for now this is a private personal project.

https://mitchellh.com/ghostty

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by matricaria » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 2:50 PM UTC

lytedev wrote: post #42

alberth wrote: post #39

OT: I'm most excited by Ghostty (created by the founder of HashiCorp). https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh

What are you excited about concerning Ghostty? I revisit the project every once in a while, because I think Zig has a wonderful and bright future, but I don't think I could ever use a terminal emulator that isn't completely open-source. WezTerm has an _enormous_ leg up over Ghostty in this regard IMO.

Ghostty will be open source once it is stable enough.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by nop_slide » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 2:50 PM UTC

vladstudio wrote: post #13

Upvote! I tried Mac Terminal, iTerm2, Kitty, Warp, etc etc, and settled with WezTerm. Easy to configure, fast, looks nice. I created a theme for it too: https://tiniri.vlad.studio/

This theme is very nice! Any way to get it into JetBrains editors?

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by jph » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 2:51 PM UTC

dmd wrote: post #56

The one thing that keeps me on iTerm2 is Edit->Selection Respects Soft Boundaries. "When enabled, vertical lines of pipe characters | will be interpreted as pane dividers (as in vim or emacs) and selection will wrap at them." (For me, it's selecting text in irc.) https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/596

Yes 100%. This is a superb UI/UX feature once you see it in action.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Post by nixosbestos » Mon, Aug 12, 2024, 2:52 PM UTC

dmd wrote: post #56

The one thing that keeps me on iTerm2 is Edit->Selection Respects Soft Boundaries. "When enabled, vertical lines of pipe characters | will be interpreted as pane dividers (as in vim or emacs) and selection will wrap at them." (For me, it's selecting text in irc.) https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/596

Meanwhile zellij just supports this natively if your terminal supports the right OSC thingy. Which it does if you're in this thread.

edit: rough, my bad. missed the via "in irc" part.