How to setup Terminal Cursor Animations (3 Methods)

How to setup Terminal Cursor Animations (3 Methods)

Thanks for watching! What are your thoughts on cursor animations? I think they look really nice, but they can be distracting at times. Even so, I think cursor animations are a really awesome feature!

I didn't mention Neovide (https://neovide.dev/) because 1. it's not a terminal and 2. I forgot to. Neovide is great, but I prefer a terminal first, neovim second workflow, rather than the other way around. They are the reason these animations are gaining so much attention though, so credit where it's due!

Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:08 Kitty Terminal
02:30 smear-cursor.nvim
05:08 Ghostty (Source)
07:24 Custom trail shader

Kitty Terminal:
https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

smear-cursor.nvim (Neovim only)
https://github.com/sphamba/smear-cursor.nvim

I didn't go very in-depth with how to setup smear-cursor.nvim. I recommend using a package manager for nvim (I use https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim) and then copy and pasting the setup code from the readme into a plugin file. Lazy.nvim has better documentation on their website.

Ghostty:
https://ghostty.org/

Ghostty shaders:
https://github.com/KroneCorylus/ghostty-shader-playground

My Patreon:
https://patreon.com/codingwithsphere

Music from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGTFqaQh26w&t=437s

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