Christian Duerr

> @chrisduerr Just disable ligatures by default. Those who want to use them and are OK with sacrificing a bit of FPS can enable. It's just that simple. Why are...

> Please do not continue to give people hope that it will land if some magic contributor finds a way to implement ligatures without a 2x regression in performance. Only...

The recommended way to test PTY performance is by using the ***latest*** version of [`vtebench`](https://github.com/alacritty/vtebench). However I'd expect anyone trying to seriously verify the performance of any ligature PR to...

> Edit: I also note that there are no benchmarks in the source code. It would probably be beneficial to add some for more crucial internal functions. That way you...

You cannot add anything to Alacritty without putting a maintenance burden on maintainers. That's just not how it works. And again feature will not be merged until the requirements are...

Is this an issue on the latest non-beta macOS release?

Fyi I've looked into that and it's not possible to do that without modifying the shell.

@nixpulvis iTerm does this and it requires both support from the shell (I believe they use some custom prompt command or something like that) and support from the shell. So...

A scrollback that can be dragged around is definitely out of scope of this project. The main reason why this issue is still open, because an indicatior to show position...

If it's just about scrolling to the top as quickly as possible, vi mode should be much quicker than a scrollbar.