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Re:iTerm2 critical security release by biwills on Thursday January 02, 2025 @05:43PM (#42579810)
Kitty (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty) has been my go to for many years and with tmux it's fantastic.

I have heard a lot of great things about https://ghostty.org/ but haven't had a chance to check it out

edit: oops, I misread your question as "what alternatives are there"

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Re:iTerm2 critical security release by ilrwbwrkhv on Thursday January 02, 2025 @05:53PM (#42579898)
Kitty is really the only superior editor beyond ghostty terminal iterm weztwrm alacritty foot and others and the only one worth recommending.
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Re:iTerm2 critical security release by alt187 on Friday January 03, 2025 @05:09AM (#42584303)
No it's not. The author smuggles opt-out telemetry and is suspiciously abrasive towards users pointing this out.

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/pull/3544

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Re:iTerm2 critical security release by ComputerGuru on Friday January 03, 2025 @10:46AM (#42586633)
No, he’s not. Calling this telemetry is a stretch and that’s his style on everything he disagrees with (unfortunately).
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Re:iTerm2 critical security release by alt187 on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @06:32AM (#42633141)
It would be a stretch if it was opt-out, but as it is, every installation of Kitty phones home by default. That is the exact equivalent of telemetry.

His "style" compounds on that by making him seem untrustworthy.

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Re:iTerm2 critical security release by clwg on Thursday January 02, 2025 @09:40PM (#42581689)
My only issue with kitty and tmux is that I always have to copy over my terminfo files manually or else I get a 'xterm-kitty': unknown terminal type error.
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Re:iTerm2 critical security release by ISO-morphism on Friday January 03, 2025 @02:10AM (#42583316)
I've done the same, but in case you didn't know Kitty can do that automatically (though it does a bit more that you may or may not want it to do)

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

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