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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only use tmux on remote machines (because Terminal has all of the features I want and don’t need session management locally). Does anything integrate with remote tmux? It would be great to get native tabs for remote tmux windows.

Iterm2, as parent mentioned. Run tmux -CC on your remote server in your iterm2 and you’ll get native windows for tmux panels

I can't believe I'm just learning about this today!

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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As a fellow iTerm2 to Wezterm convert this hit home. There’s loads of useful stuff in here, too! Thanks for the write up. I particularly like the projects setup. I built Weztermocil to achieve something similar that uses itermocil’s configs since that’s what we use at work.

https://github.com/alexcaza/weztermocil

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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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…

> e.g. IIRC his answer to "How do I set up tmux with kitty?" was something like "Don't, tmux is dumb" and closing it. Eventually I gave up.

Heh, I switched from Kitty to Wezterm due to the exact same types of comments from the maintainer. It's his project of course, and he's a great programmer, but some humility wouldn't hurt.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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post #79

I also recently switched to WezTerm because it is the only terminal that seems to work cross-platform that is also well supported in Nix/nixpkgs. Before I was using Kitty in NixOS and iTerm2 in macOS, but having one configuration for both OS is good. P.S.: I am temporary back to Kitty in NixOS because I recently switched from Sway to Hyprland and the current release of WezTerm seems to be having some issues in Hyprla…

Kitty works on macOS too?

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

#186

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…

I concur, a few problems leading me to migrate from kitty to wezterm are related to tmux, color, and ssh.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

#187

I've been using wezterm for around a year, and sponsoring Wez on github, and it's been a fantastic terminal and he's a great developer. One of the things I love most about it, which the article mentions it is not going into, is the quick copy and other copy modes. I use them All. The. Time. C-S-Space and type the letters that appear next to the item you want to copy. One big use case I have is: mosh+tmux-like functio…

One really cool feature of the quick copy mode is that if you do the uppercase version of the letters it will automatically paste the value back into the terminal prompt.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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post #38

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 comp…

A side question, why switching from Kubuntu ? Because I'm thinking to install it.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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post #83

In my experience Wez has been shockingly responsive to GitHub issues and usually fixes things (if they’re actually wrong) within a day or two. I’ve only found one or two minor quibbles involving modifier keys over SSH and overall the functionality is basically perfect for my needs. Plus it’s nice and fast. (Former avid Alacritty user but needed better modifier support for remote emacs.)

Yes!! I opened an issue ( https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/4917 ), and not only did he answer it and my side question, he merged the two PRs I made to fix it super quickly!

A bit of a tangent, 3 days ago I opened a small issue with RiMusic, not only did the maintainer reply within a few hours, they implemented the feature I requested and it is already in the F-Droid build running on my device

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

#190
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

That sounds incredible, is there any terminal that supports it on Linux?
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