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Ah! The “classic” ligature issue. Have been following that for a while. Kind of given up hope that there will ever be any support for it. Edit: punctuation

Grumbledour 5y ago
Indeed. I also switched to Kitty a long time ago. While I personally would like a tty with less features overall, this one was absolutely a deal breaker for me.
- erk__ 5y ago
  There is also Wezterm which does have support for ligatures https://github.com/wez/wezterm https://github.com/wez/wezterm
rbanffy 5y ago
> The “classic” ligature issue. We try to make our terminals do things no terminal (remember those boxes with a CRT that used to be in a room, then became ubiquitous enough to end up on our desks) ever did, or considered doing. Do I enjoy being able to partition a window without needing tmux? Yes. Do I like text reflowing when I resize the window? Sure. Do I find Tektronix mode useful? No. Do I find it fun? Of course! We all are passionate about some thing or another (I, for instance, maintain an IBM 3278-2-like terminal font), but I have to agree that, when someone says my suggestion for adding smooth scrolling or double width/height attributes to VTE (I promised to add Tek support to it, but, like so many other side projects, I didn't have the time to start it) is niche or, worse, a Terrible Idea, they are not doing that out of cruelty, but from a position of "I'll have to maintain this idea only you like forever", and, in their place, I'd probably do the same (as I have in the past with `pip-chill` (another thing I maintain), when I think an idea is not great). OTOH, from the other side, I'd love to see https://github.com/urwid/urwid/pull/434 https://github.com/urwid/urwid/pull/434 merged :-( And, of course, having https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/pull/736 https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/pull/736 shot down was disappointing, but understandable.
- maxekman 5y ago
  Absolutely! And the ligatures is definitely a nice-to-have, not a must. I really enjoy Alacritty and use it every day. The performance is amazing!

Grumbledour 5y ago

Indeed. I also switched to Kitty a long time ago. While I personally would like a tty with less features overall, this one was absolutely a deal breaker for me.

erk__ 5y ago
There is also Wezterm which does have support for ligatures https://github.com/wez/wezterm https://github.com/wez/wezterm

rbanffy 5y ago

> The “classic” ligature issue. We try to make our terminals do things no terminal (remember those boxes with a CRT that used to be in a room, then became ubiquitous enough to end up on our desks) ever did, or considered doing. Do I enjoy being able to partition a window without needing tmux? Yes. Do I like text reflowing when I resize the window? Sure. Do I find Tektronix mode useful? No. Do I find it fun? Of course! We all are passionate about some thing or another (I, for instance, maintain an IBM 3278-2-like terminal font), but I have to agree that, when someone says my suggestion for adding smooth scrolling or double width/height attributes to VTE (I promised to add Tek support to it, but, like so many other side projects, I didn't have the time to start it) is niche or, worse, a Terrible Idea, they are not doing that out of cruelty, but from a position of "I'll have to maintain this idea only you like forever", and, in their place, I'd probably do the same (as I have in the past with `pip-chill` (another thing I maintain), when I think an idea is not great). OTOH, from the other side, I'd love to see https://github.com/urwid/urwid/pull/434 https://github.com/urwid/urwid/pull/434 merged :-( And, of course, having https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/pull/736 https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/pull/736 shot down was disappointing, but understandable.

maxekman 5y ago
Absolutely! And the ligatures is definitely a nice-to-have, not a must. I really enjoy Alacritty and use it every day. The performance is amazing!