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Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by 0x457 »

nine_k wrote: post #190
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #121

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> because tmux inside tmux is very inconvenient. Hitting c-b c-b isn't that inconvenient?

C-b is less ergonomic than C-a that is the default on GNU screen. The first thing in tmux is to remap to C-a. (Triply so if you remap caps lock to ctrl.)

I switched to zellij, but I made more like my tmux was because I didn't want to learn new binding; C-q activates tmux mode. C-q + g locks so I can pass through comamnds to inner zellij. C-g unlocks. on super+enter for it opens a ghostty it and atached it to zellij session named $(hostname).

On reboot it remembers my tabs and panels and even commands that ran inside last (i.e there is popup in every panel that had something runing to run it again or just open a terminal)

Before my great wayland migration I ran patched st and it was great. Terminal job is render what terminal multi-plexer gives it and passes input to multiplexer.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by trollbridge »

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…

What's the current state of the art with using libghostty in a browser? There are a few community projects around that compile it down to wasm.

Essentially, I have a few features that have a TUI-first UI, and the obvious next step is to expose some of that to a browser.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by mkoubaa »

leephillips wrote: post #203
n42 wrote: post #191

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I have no idea why I am responding to someone who flippantly uses a phrase like "dilittante mindset", but here we go there is definitely a tendency for noobs and amateurs in any hobby or industry to obsess over expensive gear and things that don't matter (I love the term "buyhard" for it). you're out of your mind if you think the professionals in literally any industry do not discuss the specific technical tradeoffs…

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. -- Pablo Picasso

His art is bad

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by mdeeks »

oDot wrote: post #58
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'm the author of Trolley[0] (Electron for TUIs). It was so easy to get the terminal functionality going with `libghostty`. Most time was spent building the functionality around it. Thanks for making it. [0]: https://github.com/weedonandscott/trolley

I'm not quite understanding your project. What is the use case? Is this so I can package up an existing terminal app as a dedicated desktop app?

If so that actually sounds really cool. I'd like a dedicated lazygit app in my tray at all times.

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Post by nibman »

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…

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Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by _jackdk_ »

hesdeadjim wrote: post #99
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…

Random advice question. My brother taught himself to program and has been making a terminal-based game. What started out small has turned into a highly polished game with ascii art, sound, you name it. I’ve been trying to figure out how I could actually help him distribute it and I keep coming back to the best option being to wrap his programs terminal output into a host process that can emulate and render it. It see…

I don't have specific references for you, but perhaps you could look into how old-school roguelikes packaged their software for distribution. Particularly ones that made the jump to Steam or Itch?

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Post by sigbottle »

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…

You're one of the forefront experts in terminal protocol parsing. Do you have opinions on "interceptor" applications like tmux or mosh, for example? These applications technically need to do extra upfront work (especially mosh as it transforms the entire protocol) and it's not a transparent "I treat vt100 as a black box, I put bytes in, I get well structured, standardized events out". Does libghostty-vt support that currently, does it intend to support these kinds of protocols in the feature, or is this kind of thing outside the scope of the project?

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by codethief »

kombine wrote: post #252
foobarincaps wrote: post #210

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I use Ghostty as my main TUI at work and absolutely love it. Most of my day lives in terminals, and Ghostty just feels fast, clean, and out of the way in the best possible sense. I was a long-time Kitty user, but switching to Ghostty has been a big upgrade for my workflow. Hard to go back now. Thank you

Genuine question: what are the ghostty features that make it a big upgrade coming from Kitty?

Seconding that question!
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