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Okay, I Like WezTerm

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488 points alexpls | 1 comments | 12 Aug 24 13:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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binary132 ◴[12 Aug 24 14:00 UTC] No.41224437[source]▶
In my experience Wez has been shockingly responsive to GitHub issues and usually fixes things (if they’re actually wrong) within a day or two. I’ve only found one or two minor quibbles involving modifier keys over SSH and overall the functionality is basically perfect for my needs. Plus it’s nice and fast.

(Former avid Alacritty user but needed better modifier support for remote emacs.)

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nine_k ◴[13 Aug 24 01:49 UTC] No.41231379[source]▶
Regarding remote Emacs: WezTerm allows to completely capture and redefine key combinations. There's no good way to send things like C-S-", the terminal protocol just does not support them. So I made WezTerm send "<f12> c s '" instead, and added extra bindings in Emacs. This F12 trick allowed me to send quite complex combos that terminal protocols can't support.
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1. binary132 ◴[13 Aug 24 02:57 UTC] No.41231752[source]▶
Nifty! Appreciate your sharing that. I’ve managed to work around the few annoyances with remote for the most part but I’ve also accepted mostly that it’s just not going to be quite the same. I guess this is one or two steps closer.