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> Personally, the lack of scrollback and tabs is a dealbreaker for me Completely understandable. This decision was expected to be polarizing. > Do you support

by jwilm 10y ago

> Personally, the lack of scrollback and tabs is a dealbreaker for me Completely understandable. This decision was expected to be polarizing. > Do you support color emoji in the Terminal? I've never quite managed to get it working on Linux. Not yet. Fallback fonts, wide chars, and a number of other font rendering items are part of the 1.0 milestone.

adelarsq 10y ago
> Not yet. Fallback fonts, wide chars, and a number of other font rendering items are part of the 1.0 milestone. This will be available also on Windows?
- jwilm 10y ago
  That's the plan! Most components of Alacritty are platform agnostic aside from font loading, font rasterization and setting up a pty.
coldtea 10y ago
>Completely understandable. This decision was expected to be polarizing. The project being OK with polarizing decisions (instead of listening to the community and discussing it) is the dealbreaker for me. It's OK to build opinionated software, but not at such basic level.
- tps5 10y ago
  Of course it's always okay to build opinionated software at any level. If you don't like, don't use it.
- y7 10y ago
  Doesn't being opinionated necessarily preclude listening to a community and following consensus?
  - coldtea 10y ago
    No. Rails is opinionated but also had great community driven improvements.
discordianfish 10y ago
I like opinionated software. If scrollback is better implemented on a different layer, leaving it out is reasonable. But I'm not using tmux because I use i3 as wm which does all the tiling/splitting. Now using a new tmux instance for each of my terminal (can be dozens) only for scrollback seems not the right way though. Any recommendations what would be The Right Way here? Anything that only implements scrollback maybe?
- buster 10y ago
  I'm also using i3wm (and currently terminology as terminal). I'd love to give alacritty a try but not without proper scrolling :(

by jwilm 10y ago

adelarsq 10y ago

> Not yet. Fallback fonts, wide chars, and a number of other font rendering items are part of the 1.0 milestone. This will be available also on Windows?

jwilm 10y ago
That's the plan! Most components of Alacritty are platform agnostic aside from font loading, font rasterization and setting up a pty.

coldtea 10y ago

>Completely understandable. This decision was expected to be polarizing. The project being OK with polarizing decisions (instead of listening to the community and discussing it) is the dealbreaker for me. It's OK to build opinionated software, but not at such basic level.

tps5 10y ago
Of course it's always okay to build opinionated software at any level. If you don't like, don't use it.
y7 10y ago
Doesn't being opinionated necessarily preclude listening to a community and following consensus?
- coldtea 10y ago
  No. Rails is opinionated but also had great community driven improvements.

discordianfish 10y ago

I like opinionated software. If scrollback is better implemented on a different layer, leaving it out is reasonable. But I'm not using tmux because I use i3 as wm which does all the tiling/splitting. Now using a new tmux instance for each of my terminal (can be dozens) only for scrollback seems not the right way though. Any recommendations what would be The Right Way here? Anything that only implements scrollback maybe?

buster 10y ago
I'm also using i3wm (and currently terminology as terminal). I'd love to give alacritty a try but not without proper scrolling :(