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Libghostty is coming

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Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by ordinaryradical »

epolanski wrote: post #61
zenlot wrote: post #38

I use ghostty daily now. Switched recently. In macOS I can re-map now caps lock to be cmd and it works for cmd+c. Everything else is great, sensible defaults and what's not easily customizable. Gruvbox light theme looks great too. The fact it's written in Zig is awesome too, if you ever question if Zig is ready, ghostty is your answer to that. Not seeing myself going back. It's great experience. Tip: if you combine y…

Other huge projects are Clickhouse and Bun.

I think you’re thinking of TigerBeetle, not Clickhouse, which is a quite performant db with a fascinating simulation-tested story and proof of performance / safety.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by yankcrime »

trial3 wrote: post #9

i desperately want to use ghostty but cmd+f support is just such a dealbreaker. excited about this development though!

You can map something like cmd+shift+f to open the entire buffer in your default text editor, this has been sufficient for a lot of folks - myself included - while we wait for native scrollback search to land.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by tambourine_man »

I really want to like Ghostty but:

- Still no ⌘F for find.

- No way (that I know of) to select previous output or specific string and copy with only keyboard shortcuts.

- No ⌘. sending CTRL-C (muscle memory and being advertised as native to the Mac is what one would expect).

- Fonts still don't render as nicely as in Terminal.app. I've fiddled with `font-thicken-strength` and it's close, but not quite. Probably impossible or very hard to replicate due to its Metal rendering nature, but when all you do is look at text all day, it matters.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by phkahler »

valadaptive wrote: post #68
phkahler wrote: post #62

License: This is a perfect example of a project I think should be LGPL licensed and not MIT. Why? Let's suppose he's successful and libghostty become ubiquitous. What happens then? At some point you will be using a closed source version of it on Windows or MacOS or whatever - how do you know it's not logging in the background? The potential for this exists today in every commercial terminal emulator, but why make it…

Am I missing something? The LGPL only applies to the library itself--you can dynamically link to it from proprietary code. So in this hypothetical scenario, someone could just write a terminal emulator (or IDE, or what have you) that dynamically links to libghostty and put as much telemetry in it as they wanted, couldn't they?

>> Am I missing something?

No, you're not but I did! So GPL then. Maybe I just wanted to make up a scenario. I'm not sure why MIT/BSD have become so popular, they have their place but I don't think they have any place in software infrastructure.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by SSLy »

esafak wrote: post #55
nhumrich wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have heard this from a lot of people, yet here I am, using a terminal that supports this, and have yet to ever do it. Can you help me understand what workflows you depend on Ctrl+f for? I wonder if I am missing something big.

Don't you ever need to search through a program's output; e.g., to find what failed? Otherwise you'll have to remember to tee everything to a file every time you run a command.

forever i've been doing the grug brain way of copying the output to notepad++/sublime-text

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by alostpuppy »

kortex wrote: post #45
hackitup7 wrote: post #10

I love how this guy founds + takes public + sells a multibillion company and then just goes right back to hacking. Legend.

Hashimoto is an absolute wizard, but what I find most compelling about him is his absolutely uncanny ability to segment and abstract systems and interfaces in a way for maximum composability and minimal entanglement. He's like the walking embodiment of Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy philosophy. It's like he designs software systems in such a way that they have no choice but to operate correctly and predictably. Also…

I love ghostty. The only thing that is missing is a find feature which is such an odd omissions for an incredible piece of software.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by azertify »

tambourine_man wrote: post #73

I really want to like Ghostty but: - Still no ⌘F for find. - No way (that I know of) to select previous output or specific string and copy with only keyboard shortcuts. - No ⌘. sending CTRL-C (muscle memory and being advertised as native to the Mac is what one would expect). - Fonts still don't render as nicely as in Terminal.app. I've fiddled with `font-thicken-strength` and it's close, but not quite. Probably impos…

Search in scroll back is coming in 1.3, unfortunately that's going to be 6 months away.

There's a lot happening in the Ghostty app though, check out the 1.2 release notes

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by MetaMalone »

alostpuppy wrote: post #76
kortex wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hashimoto is an absolute wizard, but what I find most compelling about him is his absolutely uncanny ability to segment and abstract systems and interfaces in a way for maximum composability and minimal entanglement. He's like the walking embodiment of Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy philosophy. It's like he designs software systems in such a way that they have no choice but to operate correctly and predictably. Also…

I love ghostty. The only thing that is missing is a find feature which is such an odd omissions for an incredible piece of software.

They'll be working on it soon: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1964826929326153898

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

I use ghostty on (my?) air mac that my brother gifted to me which was his previous device for coding / general purpose etc.

Ghostty is really good and I genuinely appreciate this.

Honestly, Might seem like a small thing but the fact that this doesn't even depend on libc seems to be a really great thing to me and I kinda cherish it!

Thanks! Have a nice day!

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