Darktile – a GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers

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  • darktile

    :waning_crescent_moon: Darktile is a GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers.

  • Ebiten

    Ebitengine - A dead simple 2D game engine for Go

    So the GL backend is actually using a tile-based 2D game engine (ebiten [1]) ?

    Probably good choice since, after all, terminal graphics is simple enough for the engine to be capable to render.

    It's a bit disappointing to me who was expecting some kind of (likely to be excess) rocket science, but I know that's not a fair complaint :-)

    [1] https://github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten

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  • alacritty

    A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

    To copy the entire scrollback buffer from Alacritty: gVGy. Ctrl+Shift+Space: enter Vi mode; g: move the cursor to the top of the scrollback buffer (like gg in Vi/Vim); V: start linewise selection; G: move the cursor to the bottom of the scrollback buffer; y: copy to clipboard and clear selection (like "+y in Vim); Ctrl+Shift+Space: exit Vi mode.

    Learn what’s possible in Vi mode from the key_bindings section of the alacritty.yml config, largely the ones with `mode: Vi` and similar. You’ve got the usual things like hjkl navigation, Ctrl+B and Ctrl+F to go Backwards and Forwards a page, / to search, all that sort of stuff. (Though I will note that ? to search backwards doesn’t work, because Alacritty is using winit’s currently utterly insufficient keyboard API for its bindings, see <https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/5251>.) Also in alacritty.yml, scrolling.history defines how many lines are kept in the buffer (defaults to 10,000).

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