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the use case seems to be using tmux inside the terminal emulator, with tmux you'd use its own scrollback buffer (edit) from the project's github page in fact

the use case seems to be using tmux inside the terminal emulator, with tmux you'd use its own scrollback buffer (edit) from the project's github page in fact The simplicity goal means that it doesn't have many features like tabs or scroll back as in other terminals. Instead, it is expected that users of Alacritty make use of a terminal multiplexer such as tmux.

sanderjd 10y ago
Interesting - maybe this (or someone else) could skip the middle-man and just be a cross-platform tmux gui, instead of a terminal emulator.
- loeg 10y ago
  Not really. After all, the applications inside tmux are ordinary terminal programs that need terminal emulation.
  - sanderjd 10y ago
    That makes so much sense that I now feel really silly about my suggestion :) Thanks for setting me straight!
eridius 10y ago
The problem with this is using tmux screws with using mouse for selection (since tmux takes over the mouse and does its own selection thing, which usually doesn't do what I want). This approach also means you can't do anything interesting like what Terminal.app does with detecting prompts, marking them, and letting you jump back to them (or clear history back to them). This approach could be excused if the terminal actually natively integrated with tmux, thus providing its own gui splits/tabs that represent tmux's panes/windows, but it doesn't sound like it does that.
- fiddlerwoaroof 10y ago
  I just disable tmux's mouse usage by putting "bind m set -g mouse off" into my tmux.conf: tmux is useful enough just with key shortcuts, and I generally dislike terminal programs that use the mouse anyways. Also, some terminal emulators (iTerm2 on Mac) let you disable mouse grabbing by holding a special key while clicking, maybe Alacritty could implement something like this?
  - eridius 10y ago
    Terminal.app disables mouse mode if you hold the Fn key down (plus it has a ⌘R shortcut to toggle mouse mode on/off).
- nine_k 10y ago
  `mode-mouse off` helps tmux forget about mice.

sanderjd 10y ago

Interesting - maybe this (or someone else) could skip the middle-man and just be a cross-platform tmux gui, instead of a terminal emulator.

loeg 10y ago
Not really. After all, the applications inside tmux are ordinary terminal programs that need terminal emulation.
- sanderjd 10y ago
  That makes so much sense that I now feel really silly about my suggestion :) Thanks for setting me straight!

eridius 10y ago

The problem with this is using tmux screws with using mouse for selection (since tmux takes over the mouse and does its own selection thing, which usually doesn't do what I want). This approach also means you can't do anything interesting like what Terminal.app does with detecting prompts, marking them, and letting you jump back to them (or clear history back to them). This approach could be excused if the terminal actually natively integrated with tmux, thus providing its own gui splits/tabs that represent tmux's panes/windows, but it doesn't sound like it does that.

fiddlerwoaroof 10y ago
I just disable tmux's mouse usage by putting "bind m set -g mouse off" into my tmux.conf: tmux is useful enough just with key shortcuts, and I generally dislike terminal programs that use the mouse anyways. Also, some terminal emulators (iTerm2 on Mac) let you disable mouse grabbing by holding a special key while clicking, maybe Alacritty could implement something like this?
- eridius 10y ago
  Terminal.app disables mouse mode if you hold the Fn key down (plus it has a ⌘R shortcut to toggle mouse mode on/off).
nine_k 10y ago
`mode-mouse off` helps tmux forget about mice.