alacritty terminal
Kitty was really slow to start and this has been bugging me. Especially setting up a new system, using the default gnome-terminal, and seeing it appear instantly.
Kitty’s single instance mode (also -1
) decreased start from 400ms to 300, still too much.
time alacritty -e bash -c exit
time gnome-terminal -e "bash -c exit"
time kitty --single-instance bash -c exit
New best friend: Alacritty
Saw Alacritty mentioned and it’s awesome. Has everything I wanted from or set up for kitty. Kitty is more configurable (I think), but I’m not missing anything at all so far.
Spawn instance in same directory
I used to have a separate command for that!
[keyboard]
bindings = [
{ key = "Return", mods = "Control|Shift", action = "SpawnNewInstance" }
]
Hints
Updated the default config to copy instead of launch, use better letters, and do file paths together with URIs:
[hints]
alphabet = "aoeusndh"
hints.enabled
action = "Copy"
# command = "xdg-open" # On Linux/BSD
hyperlinks = true
post_processing = true
persist = false
mouse.enabled = true
binding = { key = "N", mods = "Control|Shift" }
# adds file paths as well
regex = '(?:(?:ipfs:|ipns:|magnet:|mailto:|gemini://|gopher://|https?://|news:|git://|ssh:|ftp:|file:)[^\u0000-\u001F\u007F-\u009F<>"\s{}\-\^⟨⟩`\\]+|(?:(?:\.\.?/)+|/)[^\u0000-\u001F\u007F-\u009F<>"\s{}\-\^⟨⟩`\\]+)'
# regex = "(ipfs:|ipns:|magnet:|mailto:|gemini://|gopher://|https://|http://|news:|file:|git://|ssh:|ftp://)[^\u0000-\u001F\u007F-\u009F<>\"\\s{-}\\^⟨⟩`\\\\]+"
Vim mode
<C-S-Space>
runs a vim-ish mode on the text, one can then copy etc. with all usual movements!
In kitty I had to do vim as scrollback pager etc. (old code below, prolly broken, didn’t use it because too complex)
For later
Previously
Some old configs from kitty, for reference:
## Bindings
# https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/index.html#kittens
map kitty_mod>f1 launch --stdin-source=@screen_scrollback --stdin-add-formatting less +G -R
## Hints
# File paths
map kitty_mod+n>f kitten hints --type path --program @
# IPs (+ with ports)
map kitty_mod+n>i kitten hints --type regex --regex [0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+){3} --program @
map kitty_mod+n>p kitten hints --type regex --regex [0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+){3}:[0-9]+ --program @
# CLI Commands
# map kitty_mod+n>c kitten hints --type regex --regex "(\$|>)(.+)(?:\n|\s*$)?" --program @
# This version copies up to the vim mode indicator
# map kitty_mod+n>c kitten hints --type regex --regex "(\$|>)(.+?)(?:\n|\s+$|\s+(?:INS|VIS|REP|SEA))" --program @
# map kitty_mod+n>c kitten hints --type regex --regex "\$(.+)" --program @
# Linenum
map kitty_mod+n>l kitten hints --type line --program @
Scrollback/vim:
# https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/index.html#kittens
map kitty_mod>f1 launch --stdin-source=@screen_scrollback --stdin-add-formatting less +G -R
scrollback_pager vim - -c "w! /tmp/kitty_scrollback_sh" -c "term ++curwin cat /tmp/kitty_scrollback_sh"