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And now I feel old. Menus in a terminal? Videos explaining a terminal emulator? Migration guide from arbitrary terminal emulators configs? Get off my lawn! Kids

And now I feel old. Menus in a terminal? Videos explaining a terminal emulator? Migration guide from arbitrary terminal emulators configs? Get off my lawn! Kids these days, never having had to compile their own xterm and then seeing the light of our holy lord and saviour rxvt, and its endless man pages. There's a huge configuration doc[1], and the homepage already does a very good job of introducing you to its features. You have to read that, yeah, but maybe you can get a screen reader to read it for you. Dunno. [1] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf.html https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf.html

heavenlyblue 8y ago
Videos are the worst. No copy/paste. The only was to go back in the information flow is through a dumb scroller without any semantic addendum. It's a joke. More importantly, making a video probably takes more time that having a nice write-up about anything. I am 26, BTW.
memco 8y ago
Eventually I was able to figure things out and more or less the process was simple enough using the config file. However, there are several behaviors that are atypical for OSX applications such as missing conventional system shortcuts and some things I consider confusing such as the fact that there are OS windows and then there are "windows" which are similar to panes in iTerm, but are not actually windows. Perhaps for other terminals or systems this is normal, but it isn't exactly par for the course for the tools I've worked with prior. One of the best things about OSX is that every item that is available in the menu bar has a clear shortcut associated with it and a very helpful search box available via the cmd+? key combo which works as a shortcut for anything you don't happen to know the shortcut to offhand. Menus happen to be one of the fastest ways to navigate OSX with a keyboard for me. This app does not have any menus to speak of, which is fine, but it just makes it that much harder to figure things out on your own. As for the video suggestion: some things just don't translate as well as text for me (I am legally blind: not afraid to RTFM, but sometimes reading is asking a bit more for me than others). Sometimes it's nice to see how someone else does it because it helps when you don't know how to do something on your own. Even an asciinema style demo is quite helpful for certain tools here and there.

heavenlyblue 8y ago

Videos are the worst. No copy/paste. The only was to go back in the information flow is through a dumb scroller without any semantic addendum. It's a joke. More importantly, making a video probably takes more time that having a nice write-up about anything. I am 26, BTW.

memco 8y ago

Eventually I was able to figure things out and more or less the process was simple enough using the config file. However, there are several behaviors that are atypical for OSX applications such as missing conventional system shortcuts and some things I consider confusing such as the fact that there are OS windows and then there are "windows" which are similar to panes in iTerm, but are not actually windows. Perhaps for other terminals or systems this is normal, but it isn't exactly par for the course for the tools I've worked with prior. One of the best things about OSX is that every item that is available in the menu bar has a clear shortcut associated with it and a very helpful search box available via the cmd+? key combo which works as a shortcut for anything you don't happen to know the shortcut to offhand. Menus happen to be one of the fastest ways to navigate OSX with a keyboard for me. This app does not have any menus to speak of, which is fine, but it just makes it that much harder to figure things out on your own. As for the video suggestion: some things just don't translate as well as text for me (I am legally blind: not afraid to RTFM, but sometimes reading is asking a bit more for me than others). Sometimes it's nice to see how someone else does it because it helps when you don't know how to do something on your own. Even an asciinema style demo is quite helpful for certain tools here and there.