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Thanks, I think I'd seen this one in the past but had ruled it out due to no Windows support (at the time).

Edit: Ah, also "doesn't have features such as tabs" ruled it out for me.

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> doesn't have features such as tabs

The lack of tabs is a feature for some of us. After all, why have tabs when you can have tmux? :)

I'm not saying you have to have tabs, if you want to paint your terminal pink with yellow fonts and render it upside down then go for it, but I'd like tabs :)

I needs to connects to multiple servers at the same time, and tmux sessions shouldn't be stacked. How can I do that without tabs?

If you have 2 tmux servers with different hotkeys you can totally nest them safely. I have a different hotkey prefix for my machine and then leave the default for servers. Works great!

Use multiple panes and/or windows? It's a terminal multiplexer, each panes is a separate terminal, just like tabs.

If you’re asking seriously... tmux has a unique interface which is probably not worth learning merely for the purpose of managing multiple active sessions. You also can’t wire it to accept proper GUI commands with the mac command key. Tabs make sense.

Personally I recommend Terminal.app :)

Alacritty isn't actually super fast, the author just opened three other emulators and decided to call Alacritty "the fastest terminal emulator on earth".

Kitty is much more full-featured and super fast. I've switched to it and love it to bits.

EDIT: Ah, it's not available for Windows, too bad. It's the best.

He did a bit more than that[0], and he comapred it to Kitty.

[0] https://jwilm.io/blog/alacritty-lands-scrollback/

Oh that's good, thanks for the heads up. Pretty recent post.

Yes, it only came out a few day ago; it's understandable you were not aware of it :)

> It's the best.

Heard of Konsole? It doesn't need GPU to achieve the same speed.

I like Kitty because of the built-in layouts, the speed is a bonus for me.

You can get a tab-like experience using tmux. This also gives you features like scrollback which Alacritty doesn't support out of the box.

Funny you should mention that - alacritty just merged their scrollback feature branch into master a couple of days ago.

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