I use terminals frequently with tmux and friends and I don’t I’ve ever used tabs from my terminal emulator.
Re:Alacritty Terminal Version 0.3.0 Release
by blissofbeing on Monday April 08, 2019 @11:11PM
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Actually, it looks like the devs are pretty open to including tabs (in macOS at least). https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/1544
Re:Alacritty Terminal Version 0.3.0 Release
by bruce_one on Monday April 08, 2019 @10:38PM
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I moved from urxvt-tabbed to alacritty and have tmux config to make it act exactly like urxvt-tabbed (shortcuts, display, and tab navigation/reordering). (Technically the scrollback is different now that I think about it... But I'm now used to it, but did prefer the urxvt(-tabbed) style. Oh, text selection isn't quite as good either (but that just be some more config.))
Alacritty just launches straight into tmux so I treat them like urxvt.
I thought it would be annoying (I'd previously decided not to try the suckless terminal because of it); but in the end it's all working pretty well.
Just a perspective on it - depending on the type of tab interface you want I guess :-)
(In summary, I think they have made a reasonable decision to not support it; but that's just my experience and how I use it :-) I know opinions will vary :-) )
I think they're somewhat naive in the claim that such are "best left to a window manager or terminal multiplexer", but I guess I'm never likely to win that argument with them. There's a reason why many terminal applications have ended up picking up tabs, and in no small part that's because Windows Managers almost always take a lot of work, or flat out don't even support it. I like and use tmux extensively, but it's never likely to replace tabs for me.