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It's the default, which means it has a lot of people use it. And IME the alternatives on mac aren't very good.

by moyix 3y ago

alwillis 3y ago
IME, this is like the golden age of terminal apps in general and macOS-compatible ones in particular. There are several really good terminals for macOS: iTerm2: (https://iterm2.com/ https://iterm2.com/) Kitty terminal (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) WezTerm termina (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html) Alacritty (https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty) My daily driver is WezTerm… - Runs on Linux, macOS, Windows 10 and FreeBSD - Multiplex terminal panes, tabs and windows on local and remote hosts, with native mouse and scrollback (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/multiplexing.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/multiplexing.html) - Ligatures (https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#fira-code-monospaced-font-with-programming-ligatures https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#fira-code-monospaced-font...), Color Emoji and font fallback, with true color and dynamic color schemes (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/appearance.html#colors https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/appearance.html#colors). - Hyperlinks (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/hyperlinks.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/hyperlinks.html) - Searchable Scrollback (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/scrollback.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/scrollback.html) (use mouse wheel and `Shift-PageUp` and `Shift PageDown` to navigate, Ctrl-Shift-F to activate search mode) - xterm style selection of text with mouse; paste selection via `Shift-Insert` (bracketed paste is supported!) - SGR style mouse reporting (works in vim and tmux) - Render underline, double-underline, italic, bold, strikethrough (most other terminal emulators do not support as many render attributes) - Configuration via a configuration file (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/files.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/files.html) with hot reloading - Multiple Windows (Hotkey: `Super-N`) - Splits/Panes (Split horizontally/vertically: `Ctrl-Shift-Alt-%` and `Ctrl-Shift-Alt-"`, move between panes: `Ctrl-Shift-ArrowKey`) - Tabs (Hotkey: `Super-T`, next/prev: `Super-Shift-[` and `Super-Shift-]`, go-to: `Super-[1-9]`) - SSH client with native tabs (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ssh.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ssh.html) - Connect to serial ports for embedded/Arduino work (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/serial.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/serial.html) - Connect to a local multiplexer server over unix domain sockets - Connect to a remote multiplexer using SSH or TLS over TCP/IP - iTerm2 compatible image protocol support, and built-in imgcat command (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/imgcat.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/imgcat.html) - Kitty graphics support - Sixel graphics support (experimental: starting in `20200620-160318-e00b076c`)

It's the default, which means it has a lot of people use it. And IME the alternatives on mac aren't very good.

by moyix 3y ago

It's the default, which means it has a lot of people use it. And IME the alternatives on mac aren't very good.

IME, this is like the golden age of terminal apps in general and macOS-compatible ones in particular. There are several really good terminals for macOS: iTerm2: (https://iterm2.com/ https://iterm2.com/) Kitty terminal (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/) WezTerm termina (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html) Alacritty (https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty) My daily driver is WezTerm… - Runs on Linux, macOS, Windows 10 and FreeBSD - Multiplex terminal panes, tabs and windows on local and remote hosts, with native mouse and scrollback (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/multiplexing.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/multiplexing.html) - Ligatures (https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#fira-code-monospaced-font-with-programming-ligatures https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#fira-code-monospaced-font...), Color Emoji and font fallback, with true color and dynamic color schemes (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/appearance.html#colors https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/appearance.html#colors). - Hyperlinks (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/hyperlinks.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/hyperlinks.html) - Searchable Scrollback (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/scrollback.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/scrollback.html) (use mouse wheel and `Shift-PageUp` and `Shift PageDown` to navigate, Ctrl-Shift-F to activate search mode) - xterm style selection of text with mouse; paste selection via `Shift-Insert` (bracketed paste is supported!) - SGR style mouse reporting (works in vim and tmux) - Render underline, double-underline, italic, bold, strikethrough (most other terminal emulators do not support as many render attributes) - Configuration via a configuration file (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/files.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/files.html) with hot reloading - Multiple Windows (Hotkey: `Super-N`) - Splits/Panes (Split horizontally/vertically: `Ctrl-Shift-Alt-%` and `Ctrl-Shift-Alt-"`, move between panes: `Ctrl-Shift-ArrowKey`) - Tabs (Hotkey: `Super-T`, next/prev: `Super-Shift-[` and `Super-Shift-]`, go-to: `Super-[1-9]`) - SSH client with native tabs (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ssh.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ssh.html) - Connect to serial ports for embedded/Arduino work (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/serial.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/serial.html) - Connect to a local multiplexer server over unix domain sockets - Connect to a remote multiplexer using SSH or TLS over TCP/IP - iTerm2 compatible image protocol support, and built-in imgcat command (https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/imgcat.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/imgcat.html) - Kitty graphics support - Sixel graphics support (experimental: starting in `20200620-160318-e00b076c`)