kitty VS zsh-autocomplete

kitty

I quite liked Kitty, and wanted to keep using it. But the slow startup was a deal breaker for me. Even with `--single-instance` it was at least 5x that of st for me, which is noticeable for an app I use very frequently. Besides, I'm not a fan of running a single instance of any app, since if (when) it crashes, all my work is gone.

Then I had a look around their issue tracker, and noticed others complained about this too[1]. And the dismissive and defensive response from the author just rubbed me the wrong way.

[1]: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/330

kitty is very close, which is impressive when you remember that the vast majority of the work is done by one guy (Kovid Goyal).

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues — 0.239% vs 0.137%

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues — 0.729% vs 0.317%

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/graphs/contributors

In recent years, new terminal emulators have appeared. I tried using them mainly for testing macmon. A couple of years ago, I tried switching to kitty, which was faster due to GPU acceleration. However, it required too much customization and still looked very non-native for macOS. GPU acceleration was added to iTerm as well, so I stayed with it.

No it's not. The author smuggles opt-out telemetry and is suspiciously abrasive towards users pointing this out.

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544

It's not just Kitty graphics, the Kitty Keyboard Protocol is a DOS waiting to happen, and Goyal with his customary charm is very hostile to the idea of correcting his mistake: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/7749

This isn't the only problem with KKB, it must be deprecated and replaced.

For those that have to bounce between Mac and Linux for work/personal reasons, I cannot recommend Kitty terminal enough.

The main thing that's a big of a pain is you'll probably want to set up a scrollback pager (I use neovim as mine but vim works too) so you easily search the terminal output and copy/paste from it.

I use

# https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/719#issuecomment-...

scrollback_pager nvim -u ~/.config/kitty/kitty-scrollback-pager.vimrc -c "silent write! /tmp/kitty_scrollback_buffer | te cat /tmp/kitty_scrollback_buffer -"

and the scrollback pager vimrc:

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git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions && git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting && git clone https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/fast-syntax-highlighting && git clone --depth 1 -- https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-autocomplete

git clone --depth 1 "https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete.git" $HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-autocomplete

Not up to the mark with https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete which works contextually.

I found it: https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete

If you're using zsh, you can use zsh-autocomplete plugin. Super easy to use. zsh-autocomplete github

save yourself time and use autosuggestions/autocompletions fish shell does it by default, zsh needs a plugin https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete (this one has a video showcasing it)

Yeah second this ^ its exactly what OP is asking for. Combine with auto-complete plugin and you can find any command youve typed before easily