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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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OT: I'm most excited by Ghostty (created by the founder of HashiCorp). https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh

I love Ghostty. On my old MacBook, it was by far the fastest terminal emulator (yes, I tried all of them, also WezTerm and Alacritty). Now on my new Mac it is still the most beautiful terminal emulator.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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I recently changed from Alacritty to WezTerm due to bugs in the former and I don't have any complaints so far. It is part of my daily professional workflow, works well with Tmux, under WSL. Great piece of software.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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OT: I'm most excited by Ghostty (created by the founder of HashiCorp). https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh

What are you excited about concerning Ghostty? I revisit the project every once in a while, because I think Zig has a wonderful and bright future, but I don't think I could ever use a terminal emulator that isn't completely open-source. WezTerm has an _enormous_ leg up over Ghostty in this regard IMO.

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Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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I will literally switch OS to anything that can implement iTerm2's tmux integration.

I only use tmux on remote machines (because Terminal has all of the features I want and don’t need session management locally). Does anything integrate with remote tmux? It would be great to get native tabs for remote tmux windows.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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Recently switched to WezTerm and I'm very happy. Was using kitty before that – loved the set up and simplicity coming from iTerm2. WezTerm is leaps and bounds better in terms of what comes out-of-the-box. My terminal config is short enough to sit all in one screen on my editor. After that, the terminal just... gets out of the way and I don't need to think about it. But the straw that broke my back with using kitty wa…

Yeah: the kitty developer is definitely the sort who believes that he not only knows better than everyone else how to use a terminal, but that everyone else's opinions are fundamentally invalid. That his terminal fails to correctly render such stalwarts as the Linux "make menuconfig" UI and there are no settings to fix it as he doesn't believe in settings is, to me, telling. I then find reading his posts on issue tra…

Remember that this is the guy who said he would personally maintain python 2 because he didn't want to rewrite calibre for python 3 [0].

I try not to knock the guy, given that kitty and calibre in particular are amazing programs, but I still think you've gotta keep that in mind when engaging.

FWIW, his conduct on the MobileRead forums where he answers questions from newbies and enhancement requests are far more polite and charitable. His ire seems to be reserved for fellow programmers.

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

#78
Things I noticed using it:

!= goes to weird ≠ utf8 char. I like != better!

Command-K clears the scroll back but NOT the screen.

Updates:

config.harfbuzz_features = {"calt=0", "clig=0", "liga=0"}

Command-L

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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I also recently switched to WezTerm because it is the only terminal that seems to work cross-platform that is also well supported in Nix/nixpkgs. Before I was using Kitty in NixOS and iTerm2 in macOS, but having one configuration for both OS is good.

P.S.: I am temporary back to Kitty in NixOS because I recently switched from Sway to Hyprland and the current release of WezTerm seems to be having some issues in Hyprland. But will switch back once this issue is solved, I know it is fixed in the main branch for example, but I would prefer to use nixpkgs cache instead of building it from source.

Re: Okay, I Like WezTerm

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah: the kitty developer is definitely the sort who believes that he not only knows better than everyone else how to use a terminal, but that everyone else's opinions are fundamentally invalid. That his terminal fails to correctly render such stalwarts as the Linux "make menuconfig" UI and there are no settings to fix it as he doesn't believe in settings is, to me, telling. I then find reading his posts on issue tra…

I guess this is what people mean when they say a piece of software is "opinionated"?

"opinionated" != "jerk"
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