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0 pointsFnoord1y ago0 comments

Alacritty on macOS and Linux user here (Windows Terminal on Windows due to easily different shells available, formerly used iTerm2 on macOS). I make up for lack of tabs with zellij locally (tmux remotely). Also allows me to relog or close/update Alacritty. I will give Ghostty a whirl but why no shout out to Alacritty? Which features am I missing out on?

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feketegy1y ago

Ghostty's community is much nicer compared to Alacritty :)

FnoordOP1y ago

Thanks. I'm interested in seeing examples (of Alacritty community not being nice). I'm aware of one now [1] but I have not been involved with the Alacritty community much. I read/write a few bug reports when the project was born; after that it has served me very well (compared to iTerm2 and Terminal.app). IIRC there was something with ligatures but I don't remember.

Thus far I have not been able to get my italic bold font (Cartograph CF) working on Ghostty, but this is a minor issue.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42532762

hitekker1y ago

One issue I noted was when they advertised poorly implemented cross-platform support https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27079234 and then told Mac users to use other terminals.

And then another where one of their maintainers had a meltdown and his fellow dev jumped in to protect him from... a bug report on the color green https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/1561

This was a few years ago so maybe they grew up since then.

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PcChip1y ago

I’m trying to figure out the same thing, sounds like just tabs?

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