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Was looking for a terminal that can render LazyVim. It's looking like Alacritty (definitely not ghostty).

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[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 4 points 2 hours ago
[–] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 8 points 4 hours ago

Adding to my hall of honour, more suggestions welcome:

  • Alacritty
  • Gentoo
  • GoTo Social
  • Loupe
  • postmarketOS
  • Qemu
  • Servo
  • Zig
[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 20 points 15 hours ago

echo "no clankers" > CONTRIBUTING. md

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

there's also wezterm if you want more features.

[–] PlexSheep 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

kitty has two problems, one is called kovid goyal, and the other, kovid goyal having been one-shotted by the autoconfabulators.

[–] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

My problem with kitty is, it didn't work for the languages I use, and when I complained the dev said he doesn't care about non-European languages. Alacritty works well for Japanese for me, including input methods, but sadly not for Arabic or other bidi.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

why's that name familiar? calibre?

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 2 points 2 hours ago
[–] FRACTRANS@awful.systems 2 points 4 hours ago
[–] redsand 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I tried micro editor recently and it's pretty nice

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I wish 'em well, but I have spent too many hours relearning keybindings and am firmly in the grasp of the sunk-cost fallacy.

Also Neovim's LSP support genuinely seems to be pioneering a sustainable way to get multi-language code completion/code actions outside of a clunky corporate IDE. So I guess I'll check that out.

[–] redsand 2 points 4 hours ago

At that point I'm pull out full blown vscodium but to each their own, i didn't learn keybinds so terminal mouse support was cool enough for me.