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Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by msikora »

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 started using it a few days ago and then I need to find something in the terminal. But....there is no find! Why? Can you guys add it? This is such a basic and critical feature that I may have to just go back to...just about anything else.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by goodpoint »

pdimitar wrote: post #28

Recently tried multiple terminals because I am gradually migrating off of Macs and I liked Ghostty but the lack of searching the scrollback has turned me away from it. Opening another editor to do the same I tried but didn't like. WezTerm has everything I need and is closest to iTerm2, minus being able to quit it and have it restore all windows and tabs on restart -- but oh well, it's not an important enough feature.…

Kitty has poor security

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/2084

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Post by james_marks »

thewebguyd wrote: post #110
pkulak wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, really? So I’ve used the terminal for everything for decades, and now, because of vibe coding, all The Kids have joined me? I don’t even know how to feel about that. Better terminals are nice though.

Right? It’s been kind of funny watching everyone “rediscover” the terminal and I’m over here feeling like a true graybeard “silly kids, I’ve been here the whole time.” What’s old is new again is apparently just as true in tech as it is in fashion.

The terminal was _always awesome_, the bar to realized that was just a tad high for many people. Until now!

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Post by mijoharas »

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…

Hey Mitchell, thanks for ghostty (happy user here for a month or two). Is there anywhere I can look to see the status of the next planned release?

I've been waiting for the vim feature to hit stable, and have just been checking to see if there's a new release every so often, but I couldn't find a discussion or anything to see when it was planned.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by james_marks »

msikora wrote: post #211
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 started using it a few days ago and then I need to find something in the terminal. But....there is no find! Why? Can you guys add it? This is such a basic and critical feature that I may have to just go back to...just about anything else.

find is provided by the OS, not a terminal emulator like Ghostty. Most likely something is wrong with your paths.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs »

TehCorwiz wrote: post #133
JCattheATM wrote: post #112

Curious to hear some more recommendations, I settled on using lxterminal which works well enough. I couldn't get wezterm to recognize fonts on ALpine no matter what I did, kitty doesn't support tabs and ghosttty sounds like it has issues with ssh connections? I feel like I tried most at some point but if anyone has suggestions for a tabbed terminal emulator nicer than lxterminal, ideally with transparency, I'd love t…

As a counterpoint to Ghostty ssh. I have literally never had an issue and I manage a large cluster of boxes that run everything from centos 7 to rocky 10. All from ghostty on a Mac.

If you don't mind, can you share your config?

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by makeramen »

nicoritschel wrote: post #200
makeramen wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zellij has been holding me over with tabs and panes (in quick terminal) while I wait for them to come to ghostty directly. Tabs (and panes? I haven't tried yet) should work fine for regular terminal windows though.

Did a double take on this one since my Ghostty has had panes for a while now (I run tip/nightly). Didn't realize it's not part of the current release. Also, Zellij is nice.

Ah I just started using ghostty maybe a week ago and I mostly use quick terminal so I might be missing the panes on the regular windows.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by jfkimmes »

Funny, I was just configuring ghostty. I finally made the jump in order to get rid of tmux as a layer of indirection.

Here's what I landed on: This config tries to emulate as much of tmux with native ghostty features (splits and tabs).

https://codeberg.org/jfkimmes/dotfiles/src/branch/master/gho...

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