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State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
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#202I see Ghostty does not support (and does not plan on adding support for) Sixels, instead preferring the Kitty image protocol. Now if the Kitty image protocol is so great and the Sixel stuff is so bad, ~~why is it only used in Kitty and Ghostty?~~ *Edit: it's also supported in Konsole, WezTerm, ... but still I'm interested in why we have 2 competing protocols right now.
>why is it only used
Sixel has existed for 40y, Kitty protocol originated and initially made for a single project (Kitty) few years ago.
>why we have 2 competing protocols
Well, iTerm2 also got its own image protocol (predating Kitty's but basic, only meant to show images rather graphics in general) that has been adopted by few other projects. Terminology also got something on its own, and urxvt can show images by setting the background image.
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#203Work 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!
Not sure if this was available from the beginning, but Ghostty has the ability to do exactly that with what they call "performable" keybindings https://ghostty.org/docs/config/keybind#performable: >
Oh wow, I'm already using ghostty and didn't know about this. It works great, thanks!
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
There seems to be a contingent that just doesn't use scroll back search, which I find kind of baffling.
Honestly, I had never even heard of it before this very thread. It doesn't seem all that useful to me, but I don't truthfully know how much or how little I would use it in practice.
Same here. What I think I’d like more is the ability to open the most recent command output in $EDITOR.
Re: State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
#205Work 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!
> I got immediately hooked on the smart Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V (without needing to use Shift like on Linux!) You, uh, never tried middle clicking?
I mean ctrl+c/v is just muscle memory, obviously there are tons of other way but ctrl+c/v are just the default and the one everyone knows.
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#206Pretty nice to see KDE's Konsole rank really high, especially if you take performance/test elapsed time into account. Considering it's a decades-older workhorse compared to the new star ghostty, not too shabby that it's kept up.
Unfortunately Konsole has this feature that each time you switch tabs the maximized window shrinks by a couple of pixels (at least on Steam Deck)
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#208Work 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!
I really wish PC manufacturers didn't kill Insert button. It worked just fine for decades with Ctrl-Ins/Shift-Ins, and in every terminal I've tried. But now the button is missing more and more often (thanks HP, I appreciate useless call and share buttons in its place, which don't work anywhere), and fixes need to be invented for a solved problem.
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#209It's interesting that none of the programs commonly known as "terminal emulators" actually emulate a terminal.. we can do that now though. https://zork.net/~st/jottings/Real-VT102-emulation-with-MAME... I would avoid doing the PTY thing and instead do this (works on WSL if MAME is the windows version): $ sudo socat TCP-LISTEN:1234,reuseaddr,fork EXEC:"/sbin/agetty -L - 9600 vt102",pty,setsid,ctty,stderr $ mame -nomou…
> You can do the same thing with a vt220. Can you? The last I looked at it (a year or two ago), the vt220 in MAME was just the beginning skeleton of an implementation, and it doesn't seem to have been touched much since then. A shame, because AFAIK no "terminal emulator" implements vt220-style sixels (which are different than than the widely-implemented vt4xx-style sixels).
I checked and it was actually the vt240. That one works.
Re: State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
#210Work 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!
It doesn't look so convenient to me. If Ctrl+v is bound to paste, how do you insert a verbatim character in the shell? How do you start a block visual selection in Vim? How do you scroll down in emacs?