extraterm VS zutty

TermKit was one of the inspirations for Extraterm ( https://extraterm.org/ ). It separates command output, allows for reuse of previous output, as well mixing content types.

The terminal VSCode has been picking up on these kinds of features lately. Now they can even "sticky" the previous command line at the top of the window when scrolling through long output.

It has taken a long time, but these ideas are slowing spreading around.

Extraterm is very similar in style to what you are asking. I recommend the Qt version.

iTerm2 is a great piece of software. It is probably the best "featureful" terminal on any platform. It is also an influence on my terminal project which also has a "features are good" philosophy but isn't limited to macOS. (https://extraterm.org/ , the website needs an update. It doesn't show latest state of the Qt version.)

Windows Terminal, Tabby, ExtraTerm

My terminal, Extraterm used to have some direct text editing in older versions before changed the whole UI to use Qt and generally be much much faster.

May I plug my terminal Extraterm . :-)

The next Qt version of Extraterm (https://extraterm.org/) will have a command to copy the contents of the scrollback and/or a command output if you are using shell integration, to the clipboard.

Extraterm, because having features in a terminal emulator is a feature, and an emulator doesn't have to look like a fork of the ancient (and spartan) xterm.

I favor kitty[0] and zutty[1].

Gnome terminal / libvte is and has always been slow, and alacritty might have good throughput, but sadly is high latency.

0. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

1. https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/

Why no love for Zutty (https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty)? It's far more feature-complete than Kitty or Alacritty, without sacrificing much in way of performance or latency.

Sorry for being offtopic. I came across an alternative to Alacritty recently: https://github.com/tomszilagyi/zutty

5k lines of poorly organized C code with poor naming conventions, nasty macros and global state, that's not something you read and reason about, that's something you delete and rewrite. Compare st's code with zutty's, a project of similar size.

Zutty is also cool: https://tomscii.sig7.se/zutty/

It's correct (like XTerm) while still being very fast.

I appreciate the suckless project and managed to build my own dwm/dmenu/surf/slock stuff, but was not able to configure st for my needs. Big drama, again and again. Yes i can build it (or take it from ports), i can patch it, but it never satisfied me (displaying fonts, scrolling issues - yes i know of 'scroll' and configured that - and so on.... ) I was spending countless hours, but in the end and for me - it does'nt feel well and i skip it - again. So i was looking for alternatives and stumbled over: https://github.com/tomszilagyi/zutty