I would keep an eye out on alacritty. It's a blazingly fast gpu-accelerared terminal emulator for Unix (currently) written in rust. According to their 0.2.0 announcement post, where they added scrollback support, Windows is next on the Roadmap.

Thanks, I think I'd seen this one in the past but had ruled it out due to no Windows support (at the time).

Edit: Ah, also "doesn't have features such as tabs" ruled it out for me.

> doesn't have features such as tabs

The lack of tabs is a feature for some of us. After all, why have tabs when you can have tmux? :)

If you’re asking seriously... tmux has a unique interface which is probably not worth learning merely for the purpose of managing multiple active sessions. You also can’t wire it to accept proper GUI commands with the mac command key. Tabs make sense.

Personally I recommend Terminal.app :)

I'm not saying you have to have tabs, if you want to paint your terminal pink with yellow fonts and render it upside down then go for it, but I'd like tabs :)

I needs to connects to multiple servers at the same time, and tmux sessions shouldn't be stacked. How can I do that without tabs?

If you have 2 tmux servers with different hotkeys you can totally nest them safely. I have a different hotkey prefix for my machine and then leave the default for servers. Works great!

Use multiple panes and/or windows? It's a terminal multiplexer, each panes is a separate terminal, just like tabs.

Alacritty isn't actually super fast, the author just opened three other emulators and decided to call Alacritty "the fastest terminal emulator on earth".

Kitty is much more full-featured and super fast. I've switched to it and love it to bits.

EDIT: Ah, it's not available for Windows, too bad. It's the best.

He did a bit more than that[0], and he comapred it to Kitty.

[0] https://jwilm.io/blog/alacritty-lands-scrollback/

Oh that's good, thanks for the heads up. Pretty recent post.

Yes, it only came out a few day ago; it's understandable you were not aware of it :)

> It's the best.

Heard of Konsole? It doesn't need GPU to achieve the same speed.

I like Kitty because of the built-in layouts, the speed is a bonus for me.

You can get a tab-like experience using tmux. This also gives you features like scrollback which Alacritty doesn't support out of the box.

Funny you should mention that - alacritty just merged their scrollback feature branch into master a couple of days ago.

There are builds available for windows that seem to work: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/28#issuecomment-37....

Using it at this point isn't viable however, since the Windows port uses rusttype for font rendering, and rusttype lacks support for hinting.

And like all these cool new *nix terminal projects, they seem to forget that a configuration GUI is worth having. Sure, you don't need it every day, but its really darn handy when you're first setting it up. The cycle of "Look at website, edit file, restart terminal, repeat, what are my font options again?" gets old really fast.

It's fast in the throughput sense. Typing latency is much worse than Terminal.app

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I don't really have a use case for a file manager, but I love your https://fman.io/blog/transparency/#open-source-promise :)

Thanks! :-)

Do you really want to take away resouces from SublimeText development? Now, that also SublimeMerge is on the plan?

With the new Windows Console API we can assume, that people will start to use it.

I don't want to take away from anything, but I think resourcing appropriately is a problem for Jon not for me :)

I'd pay cash monies for this! Particularly if it's cross platform.

Kind of curious, what don't you like about ConEmu?

I've been using it for many months now and it's been nothing but solid.

I spend 99% of the time using the WSL terminal, and every once in a while I run a PowerShell terminal too.

Really, and its a terrible reason to write an entirely other app, but I just don't like the styling on the tabs :/ That tabbed Windows GUI is just so damn ugly it actually distracts me.

> I just don't like the styling on the tabs :/ That tabbed Windows GUI is just so damn ugly it actually distracts me.

They bothered me too but it's totally fixable with 1 setting.

There's an option to remove the tabs and they become merged into the titlebar (with numbers). It ends up looking like this: https://imgur.com/a/NDgCZFJ

Then you can use Win + 1 or Win + 2 (or other hotkeys) to switch between them.

Right clicking the titlebar also brings up a context menu for accessing the settings and a bunch of other things.

You can enable this style by going to general -> tab bar -> "don't show" (the radio button on the top left).

Thanks, I'll give this a try :) Currently I have Hyper looking like this: https://imgur.com/a/8pZmMqM so I have tabs that I can click between and they look nice.

"Prettyness" seems like such a trivial thing to complain about, but when I spend half my working day staring at something I'd rather it was nice to look at!

While I generally like ConEmu, I personally find the multi-line selection to be pretty poor compared to something like iTerm2. (The way the selection buffer stays at the same coordinates while the text underneath it scrolls up isn't all that awesome either.)

ConEmu's performance for TUI apps like vim or weechat+ssh is not great.

Not a factor if you don't use those sorts of applications, but a bit of a deal breaker if you do.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18030450.

+1, windows is unusable without a good terminal - my current favorite is ConEmu but it comes with some quirks.

Hyper2 is pretty good for windows. Also the built in VSCode terminal is serviceable.

Awesome idea. Cross platform fast terminal with nice tmux integration.

This would be great.