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well iTerm2 now has a #&*%( web browser built in...
Yes! Hoping I can get Neomutt to render HTML email without resorting to launching a browser. Since URLs are clickable in iTerm, you have the option to view a webpage in the terminal.
Assuming so, what would be the benefit of rendering within neomutt instead of lynx?
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The only thing I'm missing from ghostty is scrollback search. It's planned AFAIU, I hope it gets there eventually. Otherwise, ghostty has been pretty good. (I know you can fake scrollback search with tmux. It's not the same.)
There seems to be a contingent that just doesn't use scroll back search, which I find kind of baffling.
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Lol, mb, but I don't believe that's the case for Alacritty. As for the Apple Terminal, it is not great
Apple Terminal is a lot like Internet Explorer in the 00s: for power users it’s only purpose is an interface to install something else which doesn’t suck.
No love for Windows Terminal? I know that linux has a much richer terminal ecosystem, but WT ranks a lot higher than a wide breadth of terminal emulators on linux now. Could anyone have imagined that 10 years ago?
I absolutely love it, it's my personal favorite. Using ghostty on MacOS instead. But I'm no power user.
I can't remember the last time I used a non-ascii character in the terminal. I know that's not the case for everyone, and they deserve good terminals too, but it does mean that the criteria measured here have no relevance to my choice of a good terminal for me.
Seems quite hard to avoid - file management such as running "ls" where any filename has any non-ascii character such as a CJK or accented letter - editing any text file in a terminal editor that isn't 100% ascii - viewing/printing any data from any source, such as a log file/the web/'curl'ing something, where any language other than English or non-ascii character is used - using various modern command line tools that…
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Seems quite hard to avoid - file management such as running "ls" where any filename has any non-ascii character such as a CJK or accented letter - editing any text file in a terminal editor that isn't 100% ascii - viewing/printing any data from any source, such as a log file/the web/'curl'ing something, where any language other than English or non-ascii character is used - using various modern command line tools that…
> using various modern command line tools that insist on printing emojis in their output Ugh. Unpopular opinion this but I personally find this practice repugnant. Same for when used in git commit messages, CI/CD task names and other such places. It just cheapens the quality of the product in my opinion Graphical characters and symbols like ticks I’m fine with. I have no objection to people wanting to make the termin…
Work had me using the Windows Terminal for the first time ever after a life of developing on Linux. I got immediately hooked on the smart Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V (without needing to use Shift like on Linux!) For those not knowing, Windows Terminal uses Ctrl+C to abort the current process (as we'd expect) when nothing is selected , but copies when there is a selection. Similarly, Ctrl+V just pastes. So convenient!
You, uh, never tried middle clicking?
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Mac terminals yield a similar benefit, with the systemwide copy/paste Cmd+C/V not overlapping with Ctrl+C/V. Being used to that, Linux terminals become rather annoying. Yes there's other ways under Linux, but they don't have 25+ years of muscle memory associated with them, and so when the key shortcuts don't work as expected it's like nails on a chalkboard.
Heh, shortcut muscle memory is the reason I returned my Mac mini one week after trying it. I sure am not gonna remap my brain for apple after 20 years of Linux and windows.
I have been pretty happy with Alacritty for a while but just tried Ghostty and am a little bit mind-blown. The fact that it has a built-in theme picker is insanely convenient for people working on multiple computers at the same time(so the same theme might not work everywhere). Overall, it literally looks like a better Alacritty alternative. The creator(s) did a great job!
It made for a more fun first experience with a terminal emulator than I expected to have.
Work had me using the Windows Terminal for the first time ever after a life of developing on Linux. I got immediately hooked on the smart Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V (without needing to use Shift like on Linux!) For those not knowing, Windows Terminal uses Ctrl+C to abort the current process (as we'd expect) when nothing is selected , but copies when there is a selection. Similarly, Ctrl+V just pastes. So convenient!
https://ghostty.org/docs/config/keybind#performable:>