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Cool. I hadn't heard of it before. What advantages does it offer over the Mac's Terminal, for example?
by VerifiedReports 11mo ago
Cool. I hadn't heard of it before. What advantages does it offer over the Mac's Terminal, for example?
- focom 11mo agoOne personal gripe: Compared to the default terminal, ghostty, close the terminal on ctrl+d.
- Xiol 11mo agoPeople use something other than CTRL-D to exit their terminal?
- dbacar 11mo agoi type exit
- VerifiedReports 11mo agoSame. I didn't know Ctrl-D did anything.
- quesera 11mo agoCtrl+D is the ASCII End Of File (EOF) marker. Software that takes text input should interpret that as the end of the input. Shells decide that end of input means it's time to exit. Terminals usually decide that if the shell exits, there's nothing else to do and so close the window. macOS Terminal.app instead prints "Process exited", which I can't quite fathom the value of. I guess it's marginally less confusing than making the window disappear. :) (Note though -- I can't find it in Terminal.app settings right now, but there must be a way to change the behaviour to close the window instead. Mine is configured that way, but it's not the default)
- VerifiedReports 11mo agoThanks. It exists, and I found that I already have it active. In Settings, it's under Profiles / Shell and the control is When the shell exits: - Close if the shell existed cleanly
- bombcar 11mo agoProcess exited is somewhat useful if you want to look at the results-but even then I think it exits automatically if you opened it by double clicking a script.
- dbacar 11mo agoIn fact I know the ctrl-d stuff, yet it is too much strain on your wrist if you use a finger to press the CTRL. Takes longer but typing exit is way easier. Alternatively I use the intersection of my palm and left pinky to press CTRL. :)
- kergonath 11mo agoCommand-Q? Or command-W to close only the current window.
- eviks 11mo agoYes, of course, many people use the same shortcut for the same action in all the apps
- hamburglar 11mo agoGood. That weird “keep the window open after ctrl+d” behavior is annoying.
- coder543 11mo agoTerminal.app also closes the window when the shell exits if you change a setting: Settings -> Profiles -> Shell -> When the shell exits -> Close the window
- jeanlucas 11mo agoAgainst Mac's terminal I'd recommend ghostty. Just the support for more characters and better defaults are a good reason. Yet, I use WezTerm, won't be switching soon.
- rpastuszak 11mo agoFor me: - easy to customise using a simple, easy to understand config - supports non-native full screen so I don’t need to wait for the virtual desktop transition animation on Mac to finish… - has a friendly community - it’s a good model for building sustainable products/tools and, with all of the above: it doesn’t feel like a compromise
- kccqzy 11mo agoIt’s just faster when you accidentally dump large amount of text or binary onto the Terminal. You can measure this by running `time cat` on a multi-gigabyte file and observing the wall clock time.