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The killer feature of Kitty for me is that is replaces tmux with splits and layouts. It's also got great ligature support.

sk5t 5y ago
Kitty is awesome! The ligatures, layouts and tabs, shell integration, buffer search--and ctl+shift+e and ctl+shift+u are super handy. Probably just scratching the surface here.
sreevisakh 5y ago
I prefer to use separate terminal multiplexers - mostly because that gives me the freedom to choose terminal emulators without having to learn split management paradigms specific to each enulator. I was on tmux earlier. But I really like how zellij is turning out to be. Unfortunately, kitty's author has a strong dislike for terminal multiplexers, and it shows in his designs. Recent updates to kitty have broken out-of-the-box functioning of terminal multiplexers. It may be possible to get them working with some configuration tweaks. But Kitty's configuration is huge - I don't have the energy to figure it out. So, I had to abandon kitty in favor of foot terminal emulator. The author may be justified in his dislike for terminal multiplexers. They were created at a time when emulators were too dumb and didn't have enough capabilities. Multiplexers break some functionalities on modern emulators. But I wish software authors in general respected that there is no one-size-fits-all solution and made their design to be more general purpose. In this specific case, I wish there was some standard protocol for terminal emulators and multiplexers to cooperate. The author is well within his right to choose his designs and I unfortunately don't have the time to solve that problem. And that leaves me giving up kitty as the only solution. But I miss some innovations that kitty brought to the table - new graphics protocol, remote control protocol etc. I hope that those protocols will be widely implemented in other emulators too.

sk5t 5y ago

Kitty is awesome! The ligatures, layouts and tabs, shell integration, buffer search--and ctl+shift+e and ctl+shift+u are super handy. Probably just scratching the surface here.

sreevisakh 5y ago

I prefer to use separate terminal multiplexers - mostly because that gives me the freedom to choose terminal emulators without having to learn split management paradigms specific to each enulator. I was on tmux earlier. But I really like how zellij is turning out to be. Unfortunately, kitty's author has a strong dislike for terminal multiplexers, and it shows in his designs. Recent updates to kitty have broken out-of-the-box functioning of terminal multiplexers. It may be possible to get them working with some configuration tweaks. But Kitty's configuration is huge - I don't have the energy to figure it out. So, I had to abandon kitty in favor of foot terminal emulator. The author may be justified in his dislike for terminal multiplexers. They were created at a time when emulators were too dumb and didn't have enough capabilities. Multiplexers break some functionalities on modern emulators. But I wish software authors in general respected that there is no one-size-fits-all solution and made their design to be more general purpose. In this specific case, I wish there was some standard protocol for terminal emulators and multiplexers to cooperate. The author is well within his right to choose his designs and I unfortunately don't have the time to solve that problem. And that leaves me giving up kitty as the only solution. But I miss some innovations that kitty brought to the table - new graphics protocol, remote control protocol etc. I hope that those protocols will be widely implemented in other emulators too.