holm/donovanglover-nix-config

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Donovan Glover cfbe5b70d5

It turns out that I don't actually *need* image output in the terminal
(besides being cool). With that aside, I can safely use alacritty
knowing that it's written in Rust and is apparently the fastest terminal
emulator in existence.

2021-05-14 16:17:31 -04:00

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alacritty

alacritty is a new terminal emulator written in Rust.

Use Cases

alacritty can be used to:

Have a terminal emulator that just works.
Have a terminal emulator with modern features like live reload, and without all the extras like window management.
Master tmux since you won't be relying on window management of your terminal emulator.

You should not use alacritty if:

You have a desire to output images in your terminal (use kitty instead, since [libsixel][lixsixel] support is WIP)
You have a need to use Japanese input in your terminal (an issue for over 3 years in alacritty). kitty supports this, however.