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There actually was discussion about this on his project page way back when. It ended with Kovid throwing a hissy fit and refusing to change the name out of spite.
Ha, and that’s a fork of PuTTY, a client I remember briefly using for telnet stuff 20+ years ago. Maybe one day we’ll run out of terminal names ending in TTY.
not to be confused with KiTTY SSH client which had its name at least a decade earlier
There actually was discussion about this on his project page way back when. It ended with Kovid throwing a hissy fit and refusing to change the name out of spite.
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9#issuecomment-418566309
I’ll have to see if I can find the reddit thread at some point.
If you do find it, please drop a link. I’m curious to see what drove him over the edge.
I looked and couldn’t find it. I’d love to see a reason to justify him being so grumpy about it. But without that, it seems he’s just being a jerk.
Well, thanks for trying regardless.
Run
catwithin Kitty using KiTTY.Haha yeah I came to this post thinking it was about KiTTY.
Ha, and that’s a fork of PuTTY, a client I remember briefly using for telnet stuff 20+ years ago. Maybe one day we’ll run out of terminal names ending in TTY.
We demand TITTY!
I PiTTY the fool, …