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Re:Alacritty, a terminal emulator written in Rust, now suppo... by KryDos on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @02:39AM (#18761126)
Interestingly it doesn't work faster for Vim+Tmux on MacOS. I always thought it's issue of iTerm2 and Terminal.app but as README states it's probably something related to Vim or Tmux.

Glad Windows is supported now.

EDITED: Just tried to run it on Windows and didn't get it working. I expect I should not have Rust installed, right? Error says something about winpty-agent - "agent executable does not exist"

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Re:Alacritty, a terminal emulator written in Rust, now suppo... by knubie on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @09:00AM (#18762153)
I recommend looking into Kitty. It is also GPU accelerated, and comes with its own programmable windowing + tiling system. With some configuring I was able to ditch tmux.

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

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Re:Alacritty, a terminal emulator written in Rust, now suppo... by digitaltoad on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @11:24AM (#18762882)
I actually use Kitty with tmux/vim. I noticed a massive improvement in rendering speed over iTerm. This was after messing with iTerm's own accelerated rendering which wasn't as much of an improvement as I had hoped.
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Re:Alacritty, a terminal emulator written in Rust, now suppo... by eberkund on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @02:52AM (#18761164)
You need to also download "winpty-agent.exe" from the releases page.
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Re:Alacritty, a terminal emulator written in Rust, now suppo... by roryrjb on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @02:53AM (#18761165)
See this for more context: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/1818
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