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by bjakubski 2271 days ago
I've recently made a switch to Kitty from iterm2. I couldn't suffer general slowness and visible lag when using vim or nvim anymore. Various solutions and workarounds provided only minimal relief. With kitty the performance improvement was dramatic. Configuration is more involved (config file), but I've managed to set everything up as I'm used to in short time. I'm happy so far, but ymmv
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climb_stealth 2271 days ago
Similar situation here. At some point opening/closing tabs got really slow for me in iterm2 and I couldn't find a way around it. With kitty it's pretty much instant and for me worth the lack of other features.

Also, a whole lot of it is written in Python and I actually contributed smaller changes in pull requests. It feels good to be able to just change things.

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camgunz 2270 days ago
I did this too and used kitty for maybe more than a year. I recently switched to gvim and using :terminal though; the font rendering is better and actually I think it's even faster. Give it a try.

P.S. weirdly on Linux it's entirely opposite; vim in an xterm is much faster than gvim.

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jamil7 2271 days ago
Huh, I switched to Kitty a year or so ago and then back to iTerm when they introduced GPU acceleration. Turning off ligatures made nvm much more responsive for me.
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