I’m looking for a new terminal. What’s your favorite one and why? Which one is popular?

  • hallettj
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    9 months ago

    Well I’ll throw in my endorsement for kitty. I like the ligature support, the fact that it can be configured to hide all UI, and it uses text files for configuration that I can put in my dot files repo.

    There are some particular features that I use constantly:

    I can yank a file path to the prompt from previous output by pressing ctrl+shift+p then f then a 1-character label. I can do the same with a git hash (or other hash) by pressing h instead of f.

    I can scroll back and search previous output using only the keyboard with ctrl+shift+h which puts the terminal history in a pager.

    I can get the output of only the previous command in a pager with ctrl+shift+g. Or jump to previous prompts with ctrl+shift+x and ctrl+shift+z.

    I use kitty-scrollback.nvim which replaces that pager with neovim so I can use all of my editor features to search history, copy what I want, etc.