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Alacritty Terminal Version 0.3.0 Release

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Still no tabs, and it's clear they have no intention of adding any.

I think they're somewhat naive in the claim that such are "best left to a window manager or terminal multiplexer", but I guess I'm never likely to win that argument with them. There's a reason why many terminal applications have ended up picking up tabs, and in no small part that's because Windows Managers almost always take a lot of work, or flat out don't even support it. I like and use tmux extensively, but it's never likely to replace tabs for me.

I use terminals frequently with tmux and friends and I don’t I’ve ever used tabs from my terminal emulator.

Actually, it looks like the devs are pretty open to including tabs (in macOS at least). https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/1544

I moved from urxvt-tabbed to alacritty and have tmux config to make it act exactly like urxvt-tabbed (shortcuts, display, and tab navigation/reordering). (Technically the scrollback is different now that I think about it... But I'm now used to it, but did prefer the urxvt(-tabbed) style. Oh, text selection isn't quite as good either (but that just be some more config.))

Alacritty just launches straight into tmux so I treat them like urxvt.

I thought it would be annoying (I'd previously decided not to try the suckless terminal because of it); but in the end it's all working pretty well.

Just a perspective on it - depending on the type of tab interface you want I guess :-)

(In summary, I think they have made a reasonable decision to not support it; but that's just my experience and how I use it :-) I know opinions will vary :-) )

this is awesome. i really like the text reflow and clickable links support! good job!

i see latency is still on the roadmap, when i test it in my roadmap, it didn't behave so badly but there was still room for improvement when compared to older terminals like xterm derivatives. there wasn't a release back in may 2018 when i made my review, and it seems you made three (!) since then so congrats on that. any word on how latency improved or worsened since then?

update: it looks like results are fairly similar to last time:

https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/673#issuecomment-4...

and don't listen to people complaining about tabs: that's best left to window managers or muxers. lean and mean is the way to go. ;)

The amazing thing about this is that the Windows installer is just 4 MB, 1/10 the size of an Electron app that does nothing.

uTorrent was 300kb and arguably much more complex than a term emulator, what's your point?

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Is there a trick to make the alt key behave like esc+key? Without this, emacs is pretty unusable in Alacritty.

I did find a few filed issues and they all seem to suggest to add a huge number of key mappings for every possible combination with alt. Which seems ... odd.

Which versions of Windows does this support?

is copying and pasting working ?

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