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kitty is the most feature complete terminal emulator out there. It’s the only one that properly supports ligatures and variable width characters for instance. If you want faithful terminal reproduction with built in native tmux like functionality (including non broken mouse support), kitty is about the only option.


No it isn't, I have version 0.27.1 installed and it reports itself as a VT220 rather than VT420 (like xterm), or VT520 (like Zutty). And even despite purporting to be a VT220 it still fails on LineFeed Mode, DSR, and SRM; which the developer of Zutty called out back in 2020: https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/12/A-totally-biased-comparison-...


Wezterm is feature parity with kitty. But can be configured in lua instead of a long custom text file with vim tag support


>It’s the only one that properly supports ligatures and variable width characters for instance.

Are these like "powerline fonts" or what? Where are these used?


Are you saying that because you've found something missing from wezterm, or because you're not considering wezterm at all?


> variable width characters

Do you mean such things as wide Unicode glyphs? Because it doesn’t seem to support variable-width fonts.




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