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The stale field of terminals is also getting new developments. My particular favorite is Kitty input protocol that allows terminals to use such 21-st century functionality as accurate key press reporting: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/

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Kitty has done great work in this regard. The Keyboard Protocol and the Image Protocol is top notch. Accurate keys was a much needed change. The image protocol blows sixel and ascii out of the water. The thing that baffles me is that so many people are resistant to these two things because they don't like the lead dev.

> The thing that baffles me is that so many people are resistant to these two things because they don't like the lead dev.

Who’s the developer of kitty… oh.

It’s the guy who said he’ll single-handedly going to keep Python 2 alive?

I mean he's also the chief dev of calibre so that's a gold star

> It’s the guy who said he’ll single-handedly going to keep Python 2 alive?

I don't know about that, but he's extremely competent, so I wouldn't be too surprised.

And that's just what he did until someone showed up to do the grunt work of porting to Python 3, at which point he co-operated with that person and helped make the port happen, just as he said he would. I suggest a more facts based narrative in the future.

List of all python3 PRs merged by the developer in minutes to hours: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pulls?q=is%3Apr+py3

It's fine if his software is not for you, but Kovid Goyal is the real deal.

And his claim wasn't that he would keep a generally-viable fork of Python 2 going, but that he would maintain the parts of it that he used in his Python 2 application. He wasn't trying to out-code the whole Python core team or something silly like that.

I’m not saying he’s a solid dev. But I can also understand why some of his statements might raise an eyebrow, especially if taken out of context.

How do you measure this personal resistance in the field notorious for its snail pace of change?

(also keyboard protocol isn't top notch, don't know about the image one)

Ah, you are back with your "the kitty protocol doesn't support my pet feature that nothing else supports, aka left and right distinct modifier states" so it must be bad. I was wondering when you would show up again.

The "security" practices of kitty are dubious: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544

It's just a check for updates and notifies you of it. Standard feature in many modern applications

You actually don't have to use Kitty. I'm using iTerm2, and it also supports the Kitty input protocol. Several other terminals also support it.

I think you'll enjoy https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2084

Sigh. Go read the docs:

remote control has both a socket only mode, and has the ability to allow tty connections only with a password: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.allow_remote...

Furthermore, remote control in kitty has capability based security where you can lock down the protocol to allow individual actions with arbitrary granularity:

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.remote_contr...

No thanks, I prefer software with a more principled security architecture.

Then stick to commenting on posts about such software instead of trying to mislead people about software you know nothing about.

Oh yes, that's the other reason I don't use Kitty -- personalities. Enjoy your day.

And we are all delighted to be spared from your personality in the kitty community. Enjoy your day as well.

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