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Some time ago I played with setting up Anaconda in VS Code, but this time I want to upgrade Git for Windows and run it from Alacritty.

Shells

Git

D:\Programs\Alacritty-v0.13.2-portable.exe --command "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe"

MinGW

D:\Programs\Alacritty-v0.13.2-portable.exe --command C:\msys64\msys2_shell.cmd -defterm -here -no-start -mingw64

MSVC

This will not work because of the spaces (arrgh)

D:\Programs\Alacritty-v0.13.2-portable.exe --command cmd.exe /k "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat"

D:\Programs\Alacritty-v0.13.2-portable.exe  --option shell="{program='cmd.exe',args=['/k C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat']}"

But it works if you put it in the config %appdata%\alacritty\alacritty.toml

[shell]
args = ['/k "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat"']
program = "cmd.exe"

A side note. If you get an error about changing only shell.args while shell.program is undefined, then this means that one need to set both arguments and use the proper types (I noticed that TOML's parser is very gentle and spaces are not allowed in the array syntax (I'm testing this on the latest Alacritty (0.13.2) that migrated to TOML format)). ref

But maybe one shouldn't touch the shell option because there's a special command option.

Conda

And here is an example when it works okay when the path has no spaces

D:\Programs\Alacritty-v0.13.2-portable.exe --command "cmd.exe /k C:\Users\neupo\miniconda3\Scripts\activate.bat"

Paths

  • where I added SSH agent autostart: C:\Program Files\Git\etc\profile.d\git-prompt.sh
  • where I added .vim folder: C:\msys64\home\neupo
  • where I added local bin folder to the PATH: C:\msys64\home\neupo\.bash_profile
if [ -d "/c/Users/neupo/.cargo/bin" ] ; then
  PATH="/c/Users/neupo/.cargo/bin:${PATH}"
fi

if [ -d "/c/Users/neupo/.local/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="/c/Users/neupo/.local/bin:${PATH}"
fi

Fonts and emoji

Nerd Fonts. My preferred choice is Source Code Pro (which is called sauce here)

Font related settings in alacritty.toml

[font]
size = 13.0

[font.normal]
family = "SauceCodePro NF"
style = "Regular"

[font.bold]
family = "SauceCodePro NF"
style = "Bold"

[font.italic]
family = "SauceCodePro NF"
style = "Italic"

[font.bold_italic]
family = "SauceCodePro NF"
style = "Bold Italic"

If you see font FontDesc {...} not found then it's time to update the Windows font cache, close terminal, install all Windows updates, reboot your computer, reinstall video driver and all other shaman steps:

Restart-Service -Name FontCache

Also an option to install all of them with a script

Configure your terminal for better experience (color emoji) https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/153#issuecomment-630636358

https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Color+Emoji

C:\msys64\mingw64\etc\fonts\conf.d

<alias>
	<family>monoscpace</family>
	<prefer>
	<family>Cousine</family> <!-- Your preferred monospace font -->
	<family>Noto Color Emoji</family> <!-- Your preferred emoji font -->
	</prefer>
</alias>

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