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Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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I love this seemingly new tendency of re-building the most basic things with much better design choices than originally made in 90-s (or 70-s) — it's sometimes baffling how people are ok with using weird unintuitive tools all day every day, because it's always been this way and after spending a couple months on it everyone gets used to it.

I mean, I love how user friendly (meaning configuration and all) kitty is out of the box. That's how tools made by programmers for programmers should look like.

That said, kitty behaves a little weird when scrolling back and forth in vim — at least on my laptop with my vim colorscheme. It leaves out background of a line black until I jump on that specific line or simple refresh the screen. I wonder what might be the issue here.

Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds interesting! Out of curiosity, what is your use case for those features?

It is useful for backwards execution. This is supported in various ways by Simics, gdb, SID simulator, rr, the Moxielogic emulator, and others. It is useful for virtual machine snapshots. You can restore the virtual machine with the terminal state intact.

Am I missing something? VM snapshots also save memory, any terminal will be intact after this?

Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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post #51

I love this seemingly new tendency of re-building the most basic things with much better design choices than originally made in 90-s (or 70-s) — it's sometimes baffling how people are ok with using weird unintuitive tools all day every day, because it's always been this way and after spending a couple months on it everyone gets used to it. I mean, I love how user friendly (meaning configuration and all) kitty is out…

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq.html#using-a-color-theme...

Re: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator

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This is somewhat of an aside, but the fastest terminal emulator I've ever used is rxvt-unicode. I don't even know if it utilizes the GPU (doubt it), but damn is it snappy. Try it out if you're on GNU / Linux.

This nice study goes into nicely thought out detail to compare speed of emulators, I recommend it. Urxvt is not so blazing fast at latency, and it manages great scrolling speed by dropping content. (It's my current emulator of choice though !)

https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/

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