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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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1. colesantiago ◴[] No.41224246[source]
There are so many terminals out there.

Curious what sort of features and other things you look for when looking or comparing terminals like WezTerm and the like?

What are your deal breakers and must haves of a terminal emulator?

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2. ishaanbahal ◴[] No.41224492[source]
For me, speed, simplicity in configuration, and no AI is more or less a good start. I moved from iTerm to Warp recently, before switching to wezterm, and the only reason i dropped Warp (despite signing in) was that it comes in your way a lot, the click to focus on blocks becomes a hindrance for me (I hardly care for the previous blocks), the constant reminders in Red to update and obviously the AI prompting, albeit to the side, they keep trying to find a way for me to use it, but I'd rather stick with CTRL+R or quick google search than write a coherent sentence explaining things to a LLM.

I left iTerm because I couldn't configure it to my liking, although there are certainly ways to do it, i just couldn't. iTerm2 is certainly a good enough terminal, wezterm just somehow suits my needs better.