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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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488 points alexpls | 3 comments | 12 Aug 24 13:02 UTC | HN request time: 1.816s | source
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leblancfg ◴[12 Aug 24 13:39 UTC] No.41224245[source]▶
Recently switched to WezTerm and I'm very happy. Was using kitty before that – loved the set up and simplicity coming from iTerm2. WezTerm is leaps and bounds better in terms of what comes out-of-the-box. My terminal config is short enough to sit all in one screen on my editor. After that, the terminal just... gets out of the way and I don't need to think about it.

But the straw that broke my back with using kitty was, I'd end up encountering issues or trying to recreate some of iTerm2's features, only to end up time and again on kitty's maintainer's terse and dismissive comments.

e.g. IIRC his answer to "How do I set up tmux with kitty?" was something like "Don't, tmux is dumb" and closing it. Eventually I gave up.

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1. KolenCh ◴[12 Aug 24 19:31 UTC] No.41228348[source]▶
I concur, a few problems leading me to migrate from kitty to wezterm are related to tmux, color, and ssh.
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2. cpuguy83 ◴[12 Aug 24 21:39 UTC] No.41229626[source]▶
Somewhat fresh kitty user (a few weeks now). What's your ssh issue?

Also saw Wezterm pop up last week and definitely decided I'll give it a go here soon.

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3. KolenCh ◴[13 Aug 24 00:13 UTC] No.41230804[source]▶
The first two top results:

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/faq/#i-get-errors-about-the-...

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/discussions/3873

Basically it is how it presents itself as xterm-kitty and then how to make others recognize that. Installing terminfo on the remote is an option, lying and claim it to be xterm-256color is another (with caveats.)

As in other issues with kitty, the author is probably right. But for many people that they have many different kinds of remotes to log into where they don’t have control over, getting around with these issues is tedious.

Making kitty works is possible, and I learnt how to deal with these issues one by one, but hearing comments here on HN points me to wezterm and once I migrated I never looked back. For the simple stuffs wezterm gets out of the way. And there’s some interesting advanced stuffs to pick up, such as multiplexing with ssh: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/multiplexing.html?h=ssh#ssh-d...