It has been years, since vim & terminal emulators have existed, Why is there no animations in the terminal. like smooth scrolling, cursor animations?

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  • mini.nvim

    Library of 35+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim (version 0.7 and higher) experience with minimal effort

    • The mini.animate module is as close as I was able to get for adding Neovide animations into Neovim. Seems to be almost enough for me (pixel size animations would be lovely, but are impossible in terminal emulators).

  • kitty

    Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

    • Here's the story for kitty wrt smooth scrolling: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/1123

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  • neoscroll.nvim

    Smooth scrolling neovim plugin written in lua

    • If you want smooth scrolling on a per line basis, use neoscroll or something.

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