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Hi. In #6199 I asked for an easy way to get the default alacritty.yaml. @chrisduerr countered distributions ought include this.

If your repository does have a package, I'd suggest recommending to them that they include the repo's configuration file.

I'm requesting the MacOS distribution on the release page include an alacritty.yaml.

What exactly would you do with the alacritty.yml, were it to be included in the dmg? I doubt there would be a lot of people moving it out of there and I'd actually discourage that usually.

@chrisduerr we do have like everything(completions, man page) in Alacritty.app, the problem is that we don't have a config there :/

Seems like it should be added, given that we copy a bunch of stuff there as well.

Completions are something you should copy to your system though, the Alacritty config shouldn't really be copied over.

Thanks @kchibisov, yeah; adding the .yml to Alacritty.app alongside the other resources would be ideal. Updated the title.

Completions can be copied over to either the system config or to a user configuration. I personally have never installed completions into MacOS, have always copied them into ~/.zsh/ and used them there. Similarly I hope to have the alacritty.yml available for copying as well.

What exactly would you do with the alacritty.yml, were it to be included in the dmg? I doubt there would be a lot of people moving it out of there and I'd actually discourage that usually.

My two cents: Homebrew does put reference configs in /usr/local/share/examples (for instance, it puts one for Mirage in /usr/local/share/examples/mirage/settings.py), and I for one would certainly appreciate having a reference config on my system instead of having to open it on Alacritty's repo on GitHub.

Was done in #6639.