Why I switched from Alacritty to kitty, and how to configure kitty

Alacritty is a fast, cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator
- Here's what I like about Alacritty:
- Store config in a single file and can upload it to github
- cross-platform, can use it on macOS and Linux, even on Windows (yikes)
- Simple terminal emulator that has all I need, I don't need it to have a
tmux-like solution built-in, no tabs, no profiles, or anything else, just a
terminal
- I cannot live without tmux, but that doesn't mean I want it baked into my
terminal emulator, I'll install it and configure it myself

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- It sounds you liked Alacritty so much, why the switch?
- I've taken my notes as markdown files for quite some time now, I first fell in
love with Obsidian, my wife (if you're reading this post, you wouldn't
understand) heard me talk about it for months, but then, I was introduced to
the new love of my life Neovim
- Ever since I started using Neovim, I spend all my time in the terminal either
editing markdown files, tweaking my neovim config, working on scripts, or
editing any other type of file that comes across
- But I kept going back to Obsidian to take and read my notes, and I hated that,
even though I have keymaps configured to jump to each app,
- And yes, Obsdian has vim key bindings and vimrc support, but it cannot
compete with all the keymaps and keybindings I have configured in neovim,
for example:
- Keymap to jump between markdown headings
- Quickly open the outline and navigate it with vim motions
- Select some text and surround it with `gsa"`
- And many, many more
- But there was still 1 thing keeping me going back to Obsidian: Images
- There you can easily paste and view images, which I could not in Neovim
- Even though my markdown files are mainly text, there is a single reason why
I sometimes need to add images: *screenshots for university courses*
- That's it, I don't add any other images to my notes, unless strictly
necessary
- I'm now able to do that thanks to kitty

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0:00 - Reason for switching
0:27 - What is Alacritty
0:51 - Why I used Alacritty
1:55 - RECOMENDATION tmux
2:32 - RECOMMENDATION tmux-sessionizer
2:45 - RECOMMENDATION from iTerm to Alacritty
2:55 - What is kitty
3:05 - Why switched ot kitty?
3:19 - RECOMMENDATION from Google Docs to Obsidian
4:24 - RECOMMENDATION karabiner-elements
4:34 - Contination why I switched to kitty
5:57 - RECOMMENDATION view paste images neovim
6:39 - Install kitty
6:57 - RECOMMENDATION install brew
7:56 - RECOMMENDATION dotfiles
8:06 - Go over kitty config
10:30 - Images in kitty
11:18 - outro