Primarily for ligatures. Will revisit when this issue is resolved.
Tested out kitty and hyper as well. iTerm chosen for checking all the following boxes:
easy clicking on links even with tmux (alacritty frequently fails on this)
font support including italics & ligatures
kitty in particular did not seem to play nicely with Fira Code, may reinvestigate at a future date
setting up a separate font for each font face (needed for italics as Fira Code has no italic face) in iTerm actually seems unfortunately complicated but at least doable
supporting smart cursor highlighting (highlighting the block cursor in the color of the underlying text (super minor consideration but I enjoy it)
Primarily for ligatures. Will revisit when this issue is resolved.
Tested out kitty and hyper as well. iTerm chosen for checking all the following boxes:
tmux(alacritty frequently fails on this)