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Wezterm has tabs right out of the box and they are fully customizable, though I prefer tmux since I prefer to not have my data extinguished if I accidentally close the terminal :D

WezTerm shines in ease and breadth of configurability due to using lua, so it's simple to have the theme change between light/dark depending on host OS theme.

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Interestingly there’s another comment ITT complaining that they need to use a programming language for configuring wezterm :)

As a wezterm user I’ll admit that configuring it was mildly annoying to start, but ended up feeling like an accomplishment. A few years in, it’s just another annoying program I have to re-remember how to use when i update twice a year.

I don't know Lua either but c'mon now. It's just some config. Copy and paste from the docs and tweak the values as needed. If you really want to write something funky in there, ChatGPT knows Lua. It's not that bad.

It took me all of 30 seconds to get the Lua config to compile from copy pasting the documentation..

Your data isn't extinguished if you're running wezterm on the server too. It'll reconnect.

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