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For instance, iTerm supports italic, which Terminal.app doesn't It does (just checked).
I believe it's only supported if the font has a defined italic version, and it's unable to generate italic from a regular face.
Not to be confused with Kitty, the terminal emulator. http://www.9bis.net/kitty/
It would seem prudent for this kitty to consider changing it's name to help alleviate confusion.
I've been using Kitty for a month now. I really like it. It's slightly less usable out of the box than iTerm 2. The default shortcuts are very counterintuitive (no CMD T for new tab or CMD W to close tab). But editing the preferences is straightforward. I prefer it to iTerm because it's so. Damn. Fast. It's the only software (besides Sublime) I run on my laptop that actually feels like it's using the 40 years of tran…
I tried it on MacOS (MBP retina) and damn, it renders text awfully.
The text looks very nice on my rMBP on the built-in display and absolutely terrible on my attached 2k display.
Please forgive my ignorance: what do these terminal emulators do better than a basic terminal application, such as Terminal.app? My work with terminal is quite basic, I edit a few files, execute a few commands and sometimes cURL something. Terminal.app has some basic colors, has tabs, and works out of box without any visible performance issues for basic usage. What improvements would these emulators bring to my daily…
but fast? on an intel haswell graphics card Im seeing input latency. Sure, its technically beautiful, but the st terminal from suckless.org is lightning fast compared to this.
update: this is on a 2015 macbook with retina running funtoo, so this may be a performance consideration specific to the hardware.
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It's, well, slow. Haven't done any measurements, but it's noticeable. To do its work tmux must be basically another terminal emulator, and it seems it isn't the fastest at it. It's still strange, neither a little context switching (tmux is an extra process in the pipeline) nor doing the terminal things should amount to more than a millisecond. I think.
I haven't had any speed issues with tmux. Maybe you have something in your config that's slowing it down?
I've been using Kitty for a month now. I really like it. It's slightly less usable out of the box than iTerm 2. The default shortcuts are very counterintuitive (no CMD T for new tab or CMD W to close tab). But editing the preferences is straightforward. I prefer it to iTerm because it's so. Damn. Fast. It's the only software (besides Sublime) I run on my laptop that actually feels like it's using the 40 years of tran…
As another user of iTerm2, I am currently using several keyboard mappings from key to key (like Tab being interpreted as Esc), do you know whether Kitty supports that? As far as I can see in the docs, only examples of key to action are shown.