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A guide to configuring WezTerm using its Lua API. Focuses on appearance, keybindings, multiplexing, workspace navigation, and status bar (powerline) setup.

We won’t be looking at some of WezTerm’s key features, like custom hyperlinks highlighting rules, searchable scrollback, quick copy mode, and image support (you can find more details here). And unlike other terminals where your configuration is written using a data serialization format like YAML or TOML (Alacritty, kitty), with Lua you can more easily achieve complex configs by leveraging dynamic scripts. WezTerm manages this cleverly to ensure that only one such update can run at any given time, and if your code takes too long to execute, a timeout will be hit and your handler will be abandoned… protecting your terminal from bogging down.

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