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> No ⌘. sending CTRL-C Wait wait wait, this is a shortcut in Mac??

Seriously. I've been using Macs since... ahem... 1985... and did not know this.

It means cancel, stop. You can use it to stop progress bars, dismiss dialog boxes, terminate some well-behaved spinning beach balls, cancel a drag before dropping, etc. It's been on the platform since the classic Mac OS days.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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idk why i am the only person that dislikes ghostty, i just have a tendency to put my machines under heavy load and keep using the cli and ghostty chugs super super badly when there's any gpu or cpu load, especially compared to "slow" terminals. zero issues with iterm2 on macos or gnome terminal on linux under load but that plus zero bells or whistles makes ghostty seem like a purposeless toy to me.

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Does nobody use grep?

What good is grep if you want to search the build log on your screen that took an hour in the making? Should have thought of tee-ing it, well duh.

You just rawdog that to stdout without a log file?

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Is there a blog post anywhere that explains why it has taken so long to get search working? Ghostty is such a nice app but that's such a fundamental feature that there has to be a good reason... It's the only thing keeping me on iTerm2.

Try Cmd-Shift-J. It dumps your buffer to a temp file, with the file path made ready for you. I do that and then open the temp file with vi.

That's the workaround I've used. I still want to be able to just press command F and see "error" highlighted throughout the scrollback.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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To add... The missing scrollbars feel painful to me. I don't even want them for scrolling, really. I want the visual reference for: "How much content is in this window" and "Where am I in that content" I still use it daily but it means I have to switch tools for certain things, and reading log files or log output is one of the more common reasons I switch. I should probably look into trying to get the scrollback info…

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your request but do you not pipe outputs into a pager? (Less, more, batcat, etc) I feel like I'm probably not understanding the context though.

Sometimes you just have a command write output.

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You made me look into HashiCorp again. It's a great company from a developers perspective, in terms of the many useful tools created: Vagrant, Packer, Nomad, Consul, etc However their financials are... LOL Revenue US$583 million (2024) Operating income US$−254 million (2024) 50% loss margin :-)))

This can't be right. How are they still afloat? Actually, that's the question (or rather the feeling) I had even before seeing these numbers. Just by reading the docs and looking at everything they built (and how they built it) made me wonder if they spend more than they make. That's a really funny feeling I never had before. Like, surely economies can't be that forgiving when it comes to polishing things. Is that wh…

They’re owned by IBM

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

I just want to say, what a dream. To have wealth and be able to create projects for the sake of going the projects. To not have to make the concessions of quality for profits. There's an old Knuth quote: > In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field. And I think we're seeing more and more that these projects made with l…

What we are missing is a sponsorship model that is able to fun this kind of thing. It's not infeasible - look at university grants dispersement as an example of the overwrought predecessor of this. A ton of money moves through such institutions, and funds a lot of interesting projects.

One thing I've been envisioning is something like a "certified B corporation" style qualification that companies can get that indicates they contribute financially back to open source commensurate to the amount of it they consume to run their core business. If everything you do runs through open source software, in a moral sense, one can make the argument that you owe something back to it.

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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

1.3 is slated for release in March 2026.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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I'm really digging Ghosty's shaders. It finally feels like a gimmicky terminal done right. Want a Fallout or CRT theme without compromising on other features? You can finally have it. It brings back memories of the early days of Linux when everything was fun and not trying to mimic the most bland OS out there. Think Enlightenment before everything got gnomified.
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