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I'm reconsidering my terminal emulator and was curious what everyone was using.

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[–] schnokobaer@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While y'all here:

is there a terminal emulator that has "modern" text entry controls while still having tab completion? Like selecting text by going shift+leftarrow or deleting whole words by holding ctrl+backspace/del or replacing whole words that are selected while pasting text rather than it pasting at the point where the curser is at the start of selected text so you still have to manually delete the original characters. Maybe Undo, redo with ctrl (shift) z...

Stuff like that. Just wondering. I always find it very cumbersome to fiddle with long commands especially if they contain long paths that you want to modify. Lots of backspace and arrow-keys hitting for every single character..

[–] Makussu@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago
[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use Kitty, because it works well on both X and Wayland, and is GPU accelerated. For some reason, Alacritty doesn't display the fonts properly (Displays them much smaller on Wayland. Only program I have such issues with)

Also Kitty is more widely packaged (for example on Debian based distros)

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

It also has good configs and tabs that work well (alacrity for example does not feature tabs by design)

[–] Titou@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago
[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use foot together with foot-server. The client opens in less than a millisecond, and I usually have tens of terminal windows open at the same time. Tabbing comes from the window manager.

[–] 30p87@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

And it's pretty customizable, without UI stuff. Just pure config files, my favorite.