If tmux control mode was ever implemented for kitty I'd use it, but Goyal hates multiplexers so he refuses to do it.
Luckily it looks like wezterm will have support eventually.
Luckily it looks like wezterm will have support eventually.
So very on brand for him.
Why people keep investing themselves into Goyal's one-man-fiefdom projects is a mystery to me. I haven't used kitty, but I absolutely loathe Calibre more than any other software I use. The man couldn't design a user interface to save his life, common functions nearly everyone wants are time-consuming to set up, and the fact that calibre-web is better in every possible way speaks volumes. It took me years to realize that calibre-web had nothing to do with him, otherwise I would have switched much sooner.
I don't know anything about the drama you mention. I just know kitty is a fine terminal emulator I use all the time (also with tmux/byobu) and I am thankful the author created it. Calibre I also use from time to time and it works for my purpose. I am happy it exists and I can just shovel my ebooks onto my kindle.
It sounds like you used Calibre for years but still complain about it even though it's free..
He also accepts lots of PRs from contributers. Once you do this, it is no longer your project only.
An example PR (there are a few others equally concerning): https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544
I don't want to defend phone-home mechanisms because I am personally not a fan but an update check really is different from surveillance. I in general agree with the comment that the feature should be opt-in but the argument was not presented in a good way.
>For syncing reading progress across devices KOReader is apparently the way to go. You can setup syncing on there and any device that has KOReader installed will have the same reading position.
From google.
+ OPDS support regardless of device
Calibre has saved my bacon countless of times. It's absolutely crazy how many crappily formatted epubs are out there (not pirated ones, mind you, but bought from stores). Without Calibre to clean these up, my reading experience would have been so much worse.
You gain some, you lose some. Kitty is really low-latency and renders most Unicode shenanigans correctly (the main exception being RTL text). I can live with the fact that I don't get a normal menu bar on Wayland then :-)
Even if you open a pull request for this, that is asking the maintainer their many many hours of future maintenance and support they have to do to keep this feature alive and improved, all for free.
Goyal is opinionated but so what? you are free to not use his free software...or you could fork it
I actually find his sass amusing...
That's exactly what they're doing, what are you talking about?
I want to go 100% kitty (both locally and via SSH), but I don't know whether it can persist sessions. With tmux I can kill the Kitty app, and when I reopen it, all tabs are there, and any running processes keep running in the background (especially important for SSH).
Is kitty able to do something like that?
That's something I learned digging through kitty's github issues when doing a deep dive looking for a term that runs on Linux and supports tmux control mode.
This turned me off from using it as someone who needs tmux daily and I wanted to share that information so that others like me might save some time investigating.