Interesting that xterm is written off as not supporting sixel, when in actuality it supports both full SIXEL and ReGIS and Tek 4010, with 24bit colour IIRC.
It's just not enabled by default.
State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
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#222Work 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?
You don't but you don't notice if you never did anything like that. Half of the keybinds listed by 'stty -a' are a mystery to mankind.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
It depends on the semantics of "everyone" and "knows". The X11 selection bindings predate CUA clipboard usage by a few years, actually. But in any case, the contention was that they were simpler, not that they are standard. And they aren't.
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#224Foot is excellent. Wayland only, but it is very fast to launch, and uses few resources. I love it.
I agree. I started using Foot based on a recommendation from the notcurses library author, who has deep expertise in terminal emulation and collaborates with maintainers.
A tip for new users: The default theme is a bit harsh. I was able to port my Alacritty theme and other config by feeding the config file to an LLM (along with the Foot documentation). It generated a configuration that was 80-90% correct and only required about five minutes of manual fixes.
The result is now visually identical to my Alacritty setup, but Foot feels faster.
Re: State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
#225Work 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!
In Linux (Wayland) you can copy text from the terminal without pressing Ctrl+C at all. Just select the text. To paste it in another Window, press the middle mouse button. This is called the Primary Selection and is separate from the Clipboard (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V). IMO the Primary Selection is more convenient than the Clipboard.
But that doesn't go into clipboard history. And severely restricts what you can do between copying and pasting in general (very importantly makes it a pain to do replace (i.e. select+(implicit-delete+)paste)) as any intermediate selection before pasting destroys your Primary Selection. And if you realize you did that, recopying takes manually reselecting the text, or the otherwise-never-used ctrl+insert to recopy, instead of just repeating the same old ctrl+c as you always do with the clipboard in any sane application.
Of course still a nice option (esp. in terminals where the proper copy/paste are nerfed and selecting for editing is annoyingly not a thing), but far from a replacement for the proper clipboard.
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#226I used iterm2 for ages, but then somehow defaulted to terminal.app. It is fast and that is basically all i need from a terminal emulator, everything else is taken care of by tmux.
it is also a lot easier on the battery than iterm2
Re: State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
#227Work 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!
In Linux (Wayland) you can copy text from the terminal without pressing Ctrl+C at all. Just select the text. To paste it in another Window, press the middle mouse button. This is called the Primary Selection and is separate from the Clipboard (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V). IMO the Primary Selection is more convenient than the Clipboard.
How do you paste the selected text if you want to replace a text selection in the other window?
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#228Re: State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
#229Work 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?
> If Ctrl+v is bound to paste, how do you insert a verbatim character in the shell?
For those unaware:
> Unix interactive terminals use Control-V to mean "the next character should be treated literally" (the mnemonic here is "V is for verbatim"). This allows a user to insert a literal Control-C or Control-H or similar control characters that would otherwise be handled by the terminal. This behavior was copied by text editors like vi and Unix shells like bash and tcsh, which offer text editing on the command line.[3]
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Maybe you mean it's too much effort, because I'm sure you could. I was taught touch typing on a QWERTY keyboard in the summer between 6th and 7th grade. Last year I switched to Colemak after nearly 30 years of QWERTY.