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I just recently decided to replace iterm2 with wezterm when I started moving macbook over to nix. iterm2 is about the only one that didn’t work well for this, s

I just recently decided to replace iterm2 with wezterm when I started moving macbook over to nix. iterm2 is about the only one that didn’t work well for this, since you can’t source control the configuration (import/export doesn’t cut it) Any of the ones you mentioned would probably work good with nix too. I don’t really care about the config being scriptable at all, it was just the first terminal that easily let me set all of the keyboard shortcuts I wanted, so I stuck with it.

jamesgeck0 11mo ago
iTerm2 does support source control; I've got my settings in a git repo managed by Chezmoi. In the settings dialog, under "General" -> "Settings", there's an "External settings: Load settings from a custom folder or URL" option.
- pksebben 11mo ago
  I've also gone wez from iterm2, and you hit upon why. Don't ever make me click on things. I can't script => modify => export clicking on things. When you make me click on things, you've defined my interface for me, which I did not ask for. I suppose I'm a bit of an extremist, though.
  - theshrike79 11mo ago
    Nah, I want my configurations to be deterministic. I put config in dir, launch app. App should look like config. If it doesn't it's the app's fault. There are a limited number of applications I tolerate this behaviour from, but not many.
    - pksebben 11mo ago
      Almost entirely with you on that, actually. But OS and other environment differences frequently demand some sort of tweaking, which I absolutely do not want to do by hand if I've done it before.
      - theshrike79 11mo ago
        Chezmoi can do conditional templating on config files, which is super nice. But it's always better when the application itself is cross platform and uses just a single config file. (Just setting all of the knobs on macOS is a massive hassle and only part of them can be automated in a deterministic way...)
        pksebben 11mo ago
        It's about time I started using a dotfile manager that I didn't make entirely myself - thanks for the recommendation. For more and more of the cross-platform headaches, I've actually found myself treating the OS as more of a virtual host, and spending the plurality of my time configuring layers that run in it (modify .zshrc where it can do the work of iterm/wezterm, if it can be done in .emacs then do it there). I get the feeling that I'm not far off shipping personal nix containers around, but there's still a little too much friction between having containers work and working on the OS itself.
        theshrike79 11mo ago
        I spent a long time messing about with different solutions and Chezmoi is the one that's least confusing for me and fits the way I think the best. I've been using it for years and didn't touch the templating until this spring actually, I just had if statements in my setup bash scripts =P

jamesgeck0 11mo ago

iTerm2 does support source control; I've got my settings in a git repo managed by Chezmoi. In the settings dialog, under "General" -> "Settings", there's an "External settings: Load settings from a custom folder or URL" option.

pksebben 11mo ago
I've also gone wez from iterm2, and you hit upon why. Don't ever make me click on things. I can't script => modify => export clicking on things. When you make me click on things, you've defined my interface for me, which I did not ask for. I suppose I'm a bit of an extremist, though.
- theshrike79 11mo ago
  Nah, I want my configurations to be deterministic. I put config in dir, launch app. App should look like config. If it doesn't it's the app's fault. There are a limited number of applications I tolerate this behaviour from, but not many.
  - pksebben 11mo ago
    Almost entirely with you on that, actually. But OS and other environment differences frequently demand some sort of tweaking, which I absolutely do not want to do by hand if I've done it before.
    - theshrike79 11mo ago
      Chezmoi can do conditional templating on config files, which is super nice. But it's always better when the application itself is cross platform and uses just a single config file. (Just setting all of the knobs on macOS is a massive hassle and only part of them can be automated in a deterministic way...)
      - pksebben 11mo ago
        It's about time I started using a dotfile manager that I didn't make entirely myself - thanks for the recommendation. For more and more of the cross-platform headaches, I've actually found myself treating the OS as more of a virtual host, and spending the plurality of my time configuring layers that run in it (modify .zshrc where it can do the work of iterm/wezterm, if it can be done in .emacs then do it there). I get the feeling that I'm not far off shipping personal nix containers around, but there's still a little too much friction between having containers work and working on the OS itself.
        theshrike79 11mo ago
        I spent a long time messing about with different solutions and Chezmoi is the one that's least confusing for me and fits the way I think the best. I've been using it for years and didn't touch the templating until this spring actually, I just had if statements in my setup bash scripts =P