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Cool. I hadn't heard of it before. What advantages does it offer over the Mac's Terminal, for example?

>>Verifi+(OP)
One personal gripe: Compared to the default terminal, ghostty, close the terminal on ctrl+d.

>>Verifi+(OP)
Against Mac's terminal I'd recommend ghostty. Just the support for more characters and better defaults are a good reason.

Yet, I use WezTerm, won't be switching soon.

>>Verifi+(OP)
For me:

- easy to customise using a simple, easy to understand config

- supports non-native full screen so I don’t need to wait for the virtual desktop transition animation on Mac to finish…

- has a friendly community

- it’s a good model for building sustainable products/tools

and, with all of the above: it doesn’t feel like a compromise

>>focom+G
People use something other than CTRL-D to exit their terminal?

>>Xiol+b5
i type exit

>>focom+G
Good. That weird “keep the window open after ctrl+d” behavior is annoying.

>>Xiol+b5
Command-Q? Or command-W to close only the current window.

>>dbacar+L5
Same. I didn't know Ctrl-D did anything.

>>Verifi+hc
Ctrl+D is the ASCII End Of File (EOF) marker.

Software that takes text input should interpret that as the end of the input.

Shells decide that end of input means it's time to exit. Terminals usually decide that if the shell exits, there's nothing else to do and so close the window.

macOS Terminal.app instead prints "Process exited", which I can't quite fathom the value of. I guess it's marginally less confusing than making the window disappear. :)

(Note though -- I can't find it in Terminal.app settings right now, but there must be a way to change the behaviour to close the window instead. Mine is configured that way, but it's not the default)

>>queser+xh
Thanks. It exists, and I found that I already have it active. In Settings, it's under Profiles / Shell and the control is

When the shell exits: - Close if the shell existed cleanly

>>Verifi+(OP)
It’s just faster when you accidentally dump large amount of text or binary onto the Terminal. You can measure this by running `time cat` on a multi-gigabyte file and observing the wall clock time.

>>focom+G
Terminal.app also closes the window when the shell exits if you change a setting: Settings -> Profiles -> Shell -> When the shell exits -> Close the window

>>queser+xh
Process exited is somewhat useful if you want to look at the results-but even then I think it exits automatically if you opened it by double clicking a script.

>>Xiol+b5
Yes, of course, many people use the same shortcut for the same action in all the apps

>>Verifi+hc
In fact I know the ctrl-d stuff, yet it is too much strain on your wrist if you use a finger to press the CTRL. Takes longer but typing exit is way easier.

Alternatively I use the intersection of my palm and left pinky to press CTRL.

:)

>>dbacar+DU2
Remap caps-lock to be ctrl to save yourself from RSI.

>>fragme+1V2
too old to remap my brain :D