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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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1. rob74 ◴[] No.41224543[source]
I originally installed WezTerm because I switched from Kubuntu to Ubuntu and wanted some of the features of Konsole (infinite scrollback, searching the scrollback) without actually installing Konsole (I know you can install it under Gnome too, but it just felt... wrong). And yes, it instantly grew on me, although (as I can see from this article) I have barely scratched the surface of its configurability. My only complaint is that its many features are not really discoverable. Sure, the documentation is really good, and the author is very engaged and helpful, but... one example: I looked up how to select large blocks of text using just the keyboard, I did it once, said to myself "I have to remember this!", then promptly forgot it and now I'm back to selecting text with the mouse like an absolute noob because all in all for the few times I do this it's faster than googling that documentation page again...

(in case you're wondering, the page I mean is https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/copymode.html, not https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/quickselect.html, which sounds like what I was looking for, but is something completely different - also very handy and a great idea, but not what I was after)

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2. bbkane ◴[] No.41225227[source]
I keep my Wezterm config in a dotfiles repo and I keep notes like this in the README ( https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/tree/master/wezterm ), precisely to find them easily later!
3. barnabee ◴[] No.41225734[source]
Quickselect mode is amazing though!

It's useful out of the box but the superpower is that you can customise the regexes it matches. I've added one that finds all the filenames output by 'eza --icons' (\p{Co} matches the icon) so I can instantly type (by using shift+the quickselect letters) any filename after doing an ls (aliased to eza).

4. ajaxnet ◴[] No.41228675[source]
A side question, why switching from Kubuntu ? Because I'm thinking to install it.
5. monzool ◴[] No.41243825[source]
I am to understand that there is a way to do infinite scrollback and live searching the scrollback in WezTerm? I have not really found out how to do this like Konsole, and is the reason of often end up having a Konsole session running also. It is two incredible features when tailing live logs