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Colors in terminals are tough. There's the terminal, then the shell, then tmux, then vim, and you want all of their configs in concert even when you're switchin
by dmos62 3y ago
Colors in terminals are tough. There's the terminal, then the shell, then tmux, then vim, and you want all of their configs in concert even when you're switching between light and dark one or twice a day. Colors are tough in general. Even the browser color story kind of sucks. Dark reader goes a long way, but not enough
- KolenCh 3y agoRight, I sort of understand that (not the details). I'm sympathetic to the kitty author, who explains why other terminals and tmux are doing things wrong, etc. I guess it is especially messy in the terminal, reading a little bit into the issues and it just feels like a ton of legacy hacks between different implementations. And comparing that to the browser is interesting. Both are "ubiquitous"—terminal emulator for cli/TUI, and browser for GUI. May be because of there generality / ubiquity, it is messy and impossible to "make it right".