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I just wanted to say that this looks like a fantastic and very cool project! Congratulations on the speed.

Personally, the lack of scrollback and tabs is a dealbreaker for me. I know that I'm supposed to use tmux for that, but I can never remember how tmux scrollback and tab switching work without thinking about them. Plus I rely heavily on mouse selection of multi-screen text in the scrollback buffer. So I'm unlikely to be part of your target audience. (However, I could live without GUI config and menus, because I configure my terminals once every few years at most.)

Also, a silly question: Do you support color emoji in the Terminal? I've never quite managed to get it working on Linux.

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> Personally, the lack of scrollback and tabs is a dealbreaker for me

Completely understandable. This decision was expected to be polarizing.

> Do you support color emoji in the Terminal? I've never quite managed to get it working on Linux.

Not yet. Fallback fonts, wide chars, and a number of other font rendering items are part of the 1.0 milestone.

> Not yet. Fallback fonts, wide chars, and a number of other font rendering items are part of the 1.0 milestone.

This will be available also on Windows?

That's the plan! Most components of Alacritty are platform agnostic aside from font loading, font rasterization and setting up a pty.

>Completely understandable. This decision was expected to be polarizing.

The project being OK with polarizing decisions (instead of listening to the community and discussing it) is the dealbreaker for me.

It's OK to build opinionated software, but not at such basic level.

Of course it's always okay to build opinionated software at any level. If you don't like, don't use it.

Doesn't being opinionated necessarily preclude listening to a community and following consensus?

No. Rails is opinionated but also had great community driven improvements.

I like opinionated software. If scrollback is better implemented on a different layer, leaving it out is reasonable. But I'm not using tmux because I use i3 as wm which does all the tiling/splitting. Now using a new tmux instance for each of my terminal (can be dozens) only for scrollback seems not the right way though. Any recommendations what would be The Right Way here? Anything that only implements scrollback maybe?

I'm also using i3wm (and currently terminology as terminal). I'd love to give alacritty a try but not without proper scrolling :(

Emoji support would be huge. I can't get this working on Linux, iTerm supports it well though.

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