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Re: Libghostty is coming

#101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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.

Does nobody use grep?

Re: Libghostty is coming

#102
post #92

Total newb here - but lets say i want to make a terminal based video game (think old school text / visuals / menus), will something like Libghostty be something relevant to that?

This is for terminal/ttys, this isn't something you'd use for game dev. There are tons of other tools out there for that

Re: Libghostty is coming

#103
post #85

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…

> No ⌘. sending CTRL-C This comment sounded familiar[0]. :) For what it's worth, still possible with: keybind = "cmd+.=text:\x03" [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889411

(Surely this issue must've been discussed/debated elsewhere ad nauseum because it seems an odd design decision to leave out such a common macos binding...)

But having only used ghostty as-is and getting bamboozled by the copy paste situation, this is game changing. I was just going to wait till preferences had a GUI/TUI.. So thanks!

Re: Libghostty is coming

#105

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

Also, in real life, he's a genuine nice guy. I had lunch with him and Armon at a conference when they worked at Kiip, before they founded Hashicorp. Mitchell (to me) was the proper hacker. He just loved everything about computing. This particular conference was about distributed systems and he was just geeking out on everything.

I walked away thinking that no matter what they did, they'd probably be successful. I was extremely happy to find Ghostty and have been using it ever since.

Re: Libghostty is coming

#106
post #63
post #9

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

> i desperately want to use ghostty Is there any particular reason?

iterm2 is slow, uses a ton of memory, and keeps adding weird bloat/AI garbo

Re: Libghostty is coming

#107
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.

wow yankcrime describing a literal vi yank crime. i'll give it a try this week, that's helpful

Re: Libghostty is coming

#108
post #50
post #9

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

Can someone explain why this was not one of the first features added? Who doesn't want to search their history? There must be some complication. Mitchell raised the issue himself two years ago: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189

As someone who lives in the terminal, I can't say I've ever had the need to do that. It's only by reading the comments that I've realised that there's no search in Ghostty.

Re: Libghostty is coming

#109
post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Does nobody use grep?

How can you use grep to search the scrollback/screen buffer?

Re: Libghostty is coming

#110
post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.
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