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Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

homebrewer wrote: post #91
Crisco wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't say I love tmux, but I have a configuration file that I put on every computer I use regularly that is very comfortable for me. I basically live in the terminal across many different machines, and having the same interface for managing panes and tabs even when using ssh is invaluable. I also use vim (well neovim) as my primary editor, and have set up tmux to integrate well with it, so that might contribute…

If you spend any amount of time on remote machines with unreliable connections, local tmux is insta-reject because tmux inside tmux is very inconvenient. As with GP, it's also why I don't consider terminal emulators without tabs at all.

> because tmux inside tmux is very inconvenient.

Hitting c-b c-b isn't that inconvenient?

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by dr_dshiv »

yearolinuxdsktp wrote: post #84
stonegray wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO this isn’t the job of the emulator. You can do this all in `tmux` for example. As for editing text, ghostty+tmux most definitely supports editing text with the mouse (even an in terminal right click menu!) although sounds like your intended use of select to delete isn’t common so you’ll need to do some customizations.

I’ve been using scroll back search for 15+ years with Terminal.app and iTerm2, and there’s no way that’s not the job of the terminal. You don’t know how good that is until you use it.

What am I missing?

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by rdtsc »

mitchellh wrote: post #33

I'm the original creator of Ghostty. It's been a few years now! I don't know why this is on the front page of HN again but let me give some meaningful updates across the board. First, libghostty is _way more exciting_ nowadays. It is already backing more than a dozen terminal projects that are free and commercial: https://github.com/Uzaaft/awesome-libghostty I think this is the real future of Ghostty and I've said th…

I just wanted to say "thank you". I switched to Ghostty over a year ago and it's been working out great. It's now my default terminal. My favorite features are responsiveness and ease of splitting panes.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by guiambros »

wpasc wrote: post #109
guiambros wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coincidentally I was just listening to your interview with The Pragmatic Engineer [1] this morning. Loved hearing the stories of early days at HashiCorp, taking it public, and the near-miss with VMware. It also got me wondering how things would be different if you haven't crossed paths with the guy who unplugged your mouse :) It's fascinating how life is full of these small yet defining moments. We don't always appre…

I was also just recommended this interview on youtube. honestly it makes sense if the algo decided it was the right time to recommend this video and resultantly this post is making it's way to front page of HN

I subscribe to the channel, so I had already downloaded the episode. But glad PE is getting some algorithm-love; it's a great channel/podcast. Gergely is a great interviewer.

https://www.pragmaticengineer.com/

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by reader9274 »

saberience wrote: post #24

It's a nice terminal but it cannot be configured to the same level as iTerm, e.g. in terms of colors, look and feel, how the menus work, how the tabs work, etc. Also, in practice, I find it hard to detect any performance difference between iTerm and Ghostty even though I know in theory that Ghostty is more performant... So for now I go with iTerm because I prefer the UI.

I used to use the iTerm programmable notification bell which would ring when a particular output was printed in the terminal. Don't think I can do that in Ghostty

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by deanputney »

tw1984 wrote: post #75

just installed ghostty, looks cool. but my honest question is how it is significantly better than iterm2 to justify such a switch? I am aware of the fact that it is faster, uses less memory, various configurations is more straight forward. but is that all? I have the feeling that I must be missing something big here.

Same. As far as I can tell, Ghostty is still in active development and unfinished. For regular use iTerm 2 is a complete product that can be relied upon.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by retlehs »

thallavajhula wrote: post #79

When Ghostty was publicly announced, I used it for a few months and gave up on it due to the lack of support for the CMD+F feature that I use Terminal.app. This is a critical feature for me while tailing logs on my local. I tried the workaround of capturing the text into a text file and then searching it. It just didn't work for my workflow and dropped it. Ghostty is great otherwise. But, without the CMD+F, it's of n…

The tip releases have had search support for a few months:

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189

https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1993728538344906978

As Mitchell stated above:

> Ghostty 1.3 is around the corner, literally a week or two away, and will bring some critically important features like search (cmd+f), scrollbars, and dozens more. In addition to GUI features it ships some big improvements to VT functionality, as always.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by ghosty141 »

tasuki wrote: post #97
Myzel394 wrote: post #68

I love Ghostty, especially the UI is so much nicer than Kitty. However, for some reason ghostty sometimes has severe issues with dealing with SSH connections. The terminal is like broken and wrongly displayed and you can't properly type something. Therefore, I still use Kitty, especially for SSH connections. I don't know what `kitten ssh` does, but it makes my terminal work with SSH.

> I love Ghostty, especially the UI is so much nicer than Kitty. What are you talking about? What UI does Kitty have?

He probably refers to the fact that Ghostty aims to use the native window decorations etc.. So for example on Ubuntu it uses gtk, on mac the native macOS tab bar etc. Same goes for the scrollbar and search window.

I really like this a lot.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by gtirloni »

p0w3n3d wrote: post #92

On the new mac tahoe with rounded corners (which are really frustrating to me), ghostty should add small margin on the bottom, because the font is sometimes renedered on it and letters are cut (rarely but infuriating, when it happens)

Worth posting here: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions
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