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What Terminal should you use?

Marcel Schramm edited this page Aug 3, 2020 · 8 revisions

There are a couple of terminals cordless doesn't play well with. One of the reasons is usually bad UTF-8 support or overriding a lot of the default shortcuts in cordless.

Some terminals that are horrible in their default configuration might still work fine if reconfigured.

Linux based systems

I personally use https://github.com/thestinger/termite/ , which is a simple VTE-based terminal.

Mac OS

When using Terminal.app on a Mac, in Preferences -> Keyboard check the "Use Option as Meta key" to make the alt- keybindings work successfully.

Windows

Since the Windows terminal doesn't support UTF-8, not all characters can be rendered correctly. By default cordless will replace all characters above unicode codepoint 65536 with a ? and do the same with all characters that have a width bigger than 1.

If you are using the new Windows Terminal, set the commandline parameter --disable-UTF8 to false in order to see emojis and the likes. However, since the terminal is still not feature complete, there is no mouse-support at all and sometimes you'll encounter bugs.

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