Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age
Tabby: A terminal for a more modern age
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more evidence that "modern" just means "written in javascript"
I really hate this trend of making absolutely everything a web view / Electron.
Also, over 1400 open issues feels like a lot.
Issues on Github consist not only of bug reports, for example, but also of feature requests. If, for example, you only display issues with the label "Enhancement" at https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby, there are already over 300 of them. In addition, I have made the experience that often reported issues arise from Layer 8 problems. And that some issues, unfortunately, are not closed when they are outdated. Generally speaking and not related to this terminal emulator.
By the way, according to https://github.com/vim/vim/issues, the editor vim has over 1,300 issues. Also in this case, not all of them are actual problems that need to be fixed.
laughs in nixpkgs
What? No thank you.
A terminal that uses Electron? Hah, no...not a chance. I'll stick with wezterm.
Absolutely. wezterm is so good.
I installed it yesterday, I'm using kitty as default one, and noticed its just better in displaying colors. They kinda have a bit of more depth there. Any other cool uses of wezterm that you might recommend? Thanks!
Another kitty user here. Sounds like I'll have to checkout wezterm..
Sorry for the late response...
It has a bunch of useful features but the one I use all the time is quick search (CS-Space). It searches for things (URLs, hashes, file paths) and marks them with a one or two letter shortcut. If you type the shortcut it copies the string onto your clipboard, if you enter the shortcut in caps it copies and also automatically pastes it. And you can define your own quick search strings, anything you can describe with a regular expression.
First time I read about it, what's great about it? I currently use a combo of alacritty and tmux and aside for a thing or two I could configure better I love it.
Electron
Oh fuck off!
Who thought THAT was a good idea?
You use the terminal to escape the bloat of Electron in modern GUI applications
Why yes, please add a ton of unnecessary weight and bugs to my terminal.
But it's modern! That means it can be wasteful and no one cares.
Why would anybody use this over wezterm or alacritty?
Why should I use wezterm or alacritty and not Terminator?
The answer to your question and mine should be pretty much the same. Because everyone has different preferences and requirements.
I think you misunderstood. I want to know what requirements you have, that are not met with wezterm. I understand, that some people like different software, but this is a huge github repo for a terminal written with electron. Just confuses me
Damn I gave those a brief lookup and they seem quite sexy. I'll have to try them out.
foot terminal enjoyer
My main complaint with foot is that I have to copy the terminfo everywhere, but other than that it just works I guess
From skimming through readme I'm not sure what does it offer more than terminator+zsh. Well, ok maybe the drop-down key, but for that there are a few good terminals too
I’ve been using Warp recently and really enjoy it.
Tabby looks very good and straightforward but I'm more of a Nushell guy. Really love the user experience there.
I use this simply because I work in an offline environment and the Windows Terminal doesn't work there.
Edit: I haven't tried it since microsoft/terminal#6010 got closed. I'll have to try again soon.
I heard about this here, definitely going to give it a try, but I generally prefer simple, lightweight
Tabby seems to get a lot of hate in the comments here, but I enjoy it for the following reasons:
- it looks consistently on all platforms
- it has a nice working sync of connection profiles (even of ssh keys...encrypted!)
- its opensource
Yes, it is built on electron-crappie, but for someone who jumps across different workstations with multiple hosts with their own configurations, tabby is very straightforward.
Could the sync be done with other means? Sure, but I won't bother since tabby offers that OOTB and I can get up and running in 5 minutes from a fresh install.
it has a nice working sync of connection profiles (even of ssh keys…encrypted!)
Sorry, but what on earth does this have to do with a terminal emulator? Something like this makes way more sense as a separate tool. It's like if I was making a decision of what video player to use because it can sync my browser bookmarks.
- So can qt, gtk and pretty much any gui toolkit
- Syncthing or git annex functionally the same
- So is every other terminal
Basically just wasting resources for no reason
No way, a TNO reference
I will give it a try. Looks great 🌞