State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions

Post by akho » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 8:37 AM UTC

childintime wrote: post #271

These terminals properly handle single + double width fonts. But the same thing could work with single + half width fonts, so i,j,l,:,!,.,' and space would fit in half the width. Does anyone know of such a font? I searched but couldn't find any bi-spaced font with full/half width cells. It would not only fit more text on a line, while (probably) also being nearly as pleasing as a proportional font, but it would also…

Post by yencabulator » Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 5:59 PM UTC

xp84 wrote: post #34

embedding-shape wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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? Images as in "pictures" or is that something else? I'm using Alacritty, and I don't think I've once thought "I need to see this image inside the terminal" and I do deal with images and frames from videos a lot. Probably if I saw it being added to Alacritty I'd think it was adding unnecessary bloat, s…

I have to say, (caveat, I have not tried any of these yet) that I am intrigued by all these features like graphics being added to terminals. It feel like exploring an alternate timeline 1990s where the GUI “lost” — of course in the absence of a successful Windows and Macintosh, terminals would have naturally gained these graphical abilities 30 years ago.