I used iterm2 for ages, but then somehow defaulted to terminal.app. It is fast and that is basically all i need from a terminal emulator, everything else is taken care of by tmux.
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Agreed, as long as it has a low input latency and allows me to do some basic key re-mapping, I don't really care. Used iterm for a long time as well, but have not touched 95% of the features and it was just a distraction.
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The only thing I'm missing from ghostty is scrollback search. It's planned AFAIU, I hope it gets there eventually. Otherwise, ghostty has been pretty good. (I know you can fake scrollback search with tmux. It's not the same.)
There seems to be a contingent that just doesn't use scroll back search, which I find kind of baffling.
I use ctrl+R for search that way I'm not dependent of a terminal emulator features and can get to work even on random computers.
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-rev...
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#214Work had me using the Windows Terminal for the first time ever after a life of developing on Linux. I got immediately hooked on the smart Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V (without needing to use Shift like on Linux!) For those not knowing, Windows Terminal uses Ctrl+C to abort the current process (as we'd expect) when nothing is selected , but copies when there is a selection. Similarly, Ctrl+V just pastes. So convenient!
I have to warning everyone: Windows terminal with true color , possibly with tmux, is very slow. There is a half second delay from key press to response. I am in a vdi. Your miles varies.
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#215Nothing even mentioned on WezTerm really?
I love WezTerm! Recently switched from iTerm2 and programmed the hell out of it:
https://rashil2000.me/blogs/tune-wezterm.
It has a very extensive Lua API.
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Not sure if this was available from the beginning, but Ghostty has the ability to do exactly that with what they call "performable" keybindings https://ghostty.org/docs/config/keybind#performable: >
Hope Kovid Goyal gets inspired by this
Kitty also has it, I didn't know prior to today
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In Linux (Wayland) you can copy text from the terminal without pressing Ctrl+C at all. Just select the text. To paste it in another Window, press the middle mouse button. This is called the Primary Selection and is separate from the Clipboard (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V). IMO the Primary Selection is more convenient than the Clipboard.
That's an X11 thing that Wayland had to reimplement because it's so convenient. The problem is when pasting into the terminal something that another program copied into the clipboard. That's ctrl-shift-c. I thought about remapping copy and paste to their own keys, possibly a single one. Maybe on the number pad, which I never use. Or remapping ctrl-c.
There's always Ctrl+Insert for copy and Shift+Insert for paste. I know that there's some laptops lacking an insert key, which is terrible, but for keyboard with an insert key the Ctrl/Shift + Insert combos are useful at times.
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#218While the article title is true (errant is a very specific and concise word), to me it did not convey clear enough that this is just ucs-detect / unicode support (compliance?) ranking. The article title "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025" implied a larger comparison of terminal emulators than just ucs-detect. Personally I also question the practicality or usefulness of this table because why should I care about hav…
How fast my terminal can print 10000 lines is pretty far down the list of requirements I have, who cares as long as it is fast enough? To me it is as irrelevant as who has the best unicode support.
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Mac terminals yield a similar benefit, with the systemwide copy/paste Cmd+C/V not overlapping with Ctrl+C/V. Being used to that, Linux terminals become rather annoying. Yes there's other ways under Linux, but they don't have 25+ years of muscle memory associated with them, and so when the key shortcuts don't work as expected it's like nails on a chalkboard.
I really do like Cmd key usage for any terminal in Mac. The ability to send Ctrl+C differently than Cmd+C in a Mac is joyous. However, for most all other applications in Mac, I dislike the Mac command key. Especially in IDEs like vscode, etc. And I really hate that the actual Ctrl key on a Mac is in the wrong place, having swapped places with Fn. It's like the first thing I have to remember to do on each Mac setup, s…
What do you dislike about cmd placement?
I feel the opposite, the near-thumb position for the most used modifier is a godsend vs pinky strain.
Ctrl in caps lock is debatably better but that key is arguably better used for esc in vim setups (or the harder to setup “ctrl if held, esc if tapped”).
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#220Foot is excellent. Wayland only, but it is very fast to launch, and uses few resources. I love it.
I'm quite confused why this article tests foot v1.16.2, which is two years old at this point. The latest version is 1.25.0. By contrast, the tested version of ghostty v1.2.3 is two weeks old.
Good point. I just submitted a pull request with new data for foot 1.25.0 https://github.com/jquast/ucs-detect/pull/17. The test suite is really easy to run (and fast, foot rocks!).