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Alacritty Terminal Version 0.3.0 Release

34 points by heinrich5991 8y ago

PaulHoule 8y ago
The amazing thing about this is that the Windows installer is just 4 MB, 1/10 the size of an Electron app that does nothing.
- Thaxll 8y ago
  uTorrent was 300kb and arguably much more complex than a term emulator, what's your point?
  - Sammi 8y ago
    Here's why I downvoted you: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. ... Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. ... Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
airstrike 8y ago
Which versions of Windows does this support?
Twirrim 8y ago
Still no tabs, and it's clear they have no intention of adding any. I think they're somewhat naive in the claim that such are "best left to a window manager or terminal multiplexer", but I guess I'm never likely to win that argument with them. There's a reason why many terminal applications have ended up picking up tabs, and in no small part that's because Windows Managers almost always take a lot of work, or flat out don't even support it. I like and use tmux extensively, but it's never likely to replace tabs for me.
- haolez 8y ago
  I use terminals frequently with tmux and friends and I don’t I’ve ever used tabs from my terminal emulator.
- bruce_one 8y ago
  I moved from urxvt-tabbed to alacritty and have tmux config to make it act exactly like urxvt-tabbed (shortcuts, display, and tab navigation/reordering). (Technically the scrollback is different now that I think about it... But I'm now used to it, but did prefer the urxvt(-tabbed) style. Oh, text selection isn't quite as good either (but that just be some more config.)) Alacritty just launches straight into tmux so I treat them like urxvt. I thought it would be annoying (I'd previously decided not to try the suckless terminal because of it); but in the end it's all working pretty well. Just a perspective on it - depending on the type of tab interface you want I guess :-) (In summary, I think they have made a reasonable decision to not support it; but that's just my experience and how I use it :-) I know opinions will vary :-) )
- blissofbeing 8y ago
  Actually, it looks like the devs are pretty open to including tabs (in macOS at least). https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/1544 https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/1544
st3fan 8y ago
Is there a trick to make the alt key behave like esc+key? Without this, emacs is pretty unusable in Alacritty. I did find a few filed issues and they all seem to suggest to add a huge number of key mappings for every possible combination with alt. Which seems ... odd.
anarcat 8y ago
this is awesome. i really like the text reflow and clickable links support! good job! i see latency is still on the roadmap, when i test it in my roadmap, it didn't behave so badly but there was still room for improvement when compared to older terminals like xterm derivatives. there wasn't a release back in may 2018 when i made my review, and it seems you made three (!) since then so congrats on that. any word on how latency improved or worsened since then? update: it looks like results are fairly similar to last time: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/673#issuecomment-481082227 https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/673#issuecomment-4... and don't listen to people complaining about tabs: that's best left to window managers or muxers. lean and mean is the way to go. ;)
piahoo 8y ago
is copying and pasting working ?

34 points by heinrich5991 8y ago

The amazing thing about this is that the Windows installer is just 4 MB, 1/10 the size of an Electron app that does nothing.

Thaxll 8y ago
uTorrent was 300kb and arguably much more complex than a term emulator, what's your point?
- Sammi 8y ago
  Here's why I downvoted you: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. ... Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. ... Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

airstrike 8y ago

Which versions of Windows does this support?

Twirrim 8y ago

Still no tabs, and it's clear they have no intention of adding any. I think they're somewhat naive in the claim that such are "best left to a window manager or terminal multiplexer", but I guess I'm never likely to win that argument with them. There's a reason why many terminal applications have ended up picking up tabs, and in no small part that's because Windows Managers almost always take a lot of work, or flat out don't even support it. I like and use tmux extensively, but it's never likely to replace tabs for me.

haolez 8y ago
I use terminals frequently with tmux and friends and I don’t I’ve ever used tabs from my terminal emulator.
bruce_one 8y ago
I moved from urxvt-tabbed to alacritty and have tmux config to make it act exactly like urxvt-tabbed (shortcuts, display, and tab navigation/reordering). (Technically the scrollback is different now that I think about it... But I'm now used to it, but did prefer the urxvt(-tabbed) style. Oh, text selection isn't quite as good either (but that just be some more config.)) Alacritty just launches straight into tmux so I treat them like urxvt. I thought it would be annoying (I'd previously decided not to try the suckless terminal because of it); but in the end it's all working pretty well. Just a perspective on it - depending on the type of tab interface you want I guess :-) (In summary, I think they have made a reasonable decision to not support it; but that's just my experience and how I use it :-) I know opinions will vary :-) )
blissofbeing 8y ago
Actually, it looks like the devs are pretty open to including tabs (in macOS at least). https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/1544 https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/1544

st3fan 8y ago

Is there a trick to make the alt key behave like esc+key? Without this, emacs is pretty unusable in Alacritty. I did find a few filed issues and they all seem to suggest to add a huge number of key mappings for every possible combination with alt. Which seems ... odd.

anarcat 8y ago

this is awesome. i really like the text reflow and clickable links support! good job! i see latency is still on the roadmap, when i test it in my roadmap, it didn't behave so badly but there was still room for improvement when compared to older terminals like xterm derivatives. there wasn't a release back in may 2018 when i made my review, and it seems you made three (!) since then so congrats on that. any word on how latency improved or worsened since then? update: it looks like results are fairly similar to last time: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/673#issuecomment-481082227 https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/673#issuecomment-4... and don't listen to people complaining about tabs: that's best left to window managers or muxers. lean and mean is the way to go. ;)

piahoo 8y ago

is copying and pasting working ?