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Discussion on: What's Your Favorite Text Editor or Terminal Emulator?

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Ben Sinclair

I think that the common terminal emulators, like iterm, Windows terminal, the Gnome bits and bobs, are all so similar to use that it makes no odds.

Whenever I've used anything else, I find that the missing bits overshadow the exciting new features. For example, I like using tabs to separate some sessions (mostly because nesting tmux sessions is a less-than-great idea) and alacritty doesn't support tabs, or I just don't want to use yet another electron app, or whatever.

With the core set of features:

  • custom font and colour scheme
  • respects keyboard shortcuts to change font size
  • the tabs thing I was talking about before
  • er, that's it

then terminals disappear into the background of the OS and behave basically the same on whichever OS I'm using at the time.