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Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by jez » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 6:07 PM UTC

jrop wrote: post #11

jez wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you consider yourself a neovim terminal power user? I tried a while back to invert my workflow (from tmux driving neovim to neovim driving terminals) because I thought it might be easier to only ever have one buffer open for a given file, instead of attempting to open a file in a given pane only to realize that it's already open in a different neovim instance in a different pane. When I was testing that stuff out…

I do indeed live in the terminal (all day due to work), but tmux adds too much value for me to do all terminal management in Neovim (tmux session-management being what I use most). I've just encountered too many visual "glitches" in the Neovim terminal to rely on it for everything. That's not to say, however, that I never use the built-in Neovim :terminal. > I thought it might be easier to only ever have one buffer o…

I think my problem is when I realize that I had unsaved changes open in a different neovim instance. If the file was not dirty in any other open neovim instances then I don't have the same problem.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by Pet_Ant » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 6:09 PM UTC

I really want a little adapter that can plug into a monitor to make it a dumb terminal. Instantly on, no full OS, just a VT100 or something.

I've looked into it with a PiZero and some HATs but I'd like something made by smarter people. This would be perfect for that.

Ideally just some dip-switchs to set the terminal to emulate and set the display resolution.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by eigencoder » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 6:10 PM UTC

I was really excited to try ghostty, but the text looks blurry when I place it on my mac's external monitor

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by krferriter » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 6:14 PM UTC

buildbot wrote: post #28

hackitup7 wrote: post #10

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

I love ghostty and use it daily, somehow I missed it was by Mitchell Hashimoto! Very cool to see.

I had tried it briefly previously but in the last couple months I think I have made the permanent switch from iterm2. It's so much snappier and simpler and also reliably handles text reflowing when a long line wraps, which was a constant problem I had in iterm2, where it would insert fake newlines when copying out text that was wrapped.

I also like that I can have my config in a little plaintext file and just drop it onto a new computer and get the same keybindings. I am using the terminator keybindings for creating and navigating between split panes.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by tdhz77 » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 6:14 PM UTC

I enjoy ghostty and zellij. Zig and rust built.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by tristan957 » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 6:20 PM UTC

carwyn wrote: post #14

How does this compare to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/ ?

libghostty will eventually export a Terminal widget that can be used in GTK as well, so in that regard they serve a similar purpose.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by sigalor » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 6:23 PM UTC

Will there also be a React component? Or is this not intended for web frontends? I was wondering, because Vercel et al. were mentioned in the beginning.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by zenlot » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 6:29 PM UTC

I use ghostty daily now. Switched recently. In macOS I can re-map now caps lock to be cmd and it works for cmd+c. Everything else is great, sensible defaults and what's not easily customizable.

Gruvbox light theme looks great too.

The fact it's written in Zig is awesome too, if you ever question if Zig is ready, ghostty is your answer to that.

Not seeing myself going back. It's great experience.

Tip: if you combine your ghostty flow with aerospace, it's nearly perfect setup for your keyboard only experience on mac.

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by trial3 » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 6:29 PM UTC

jrop wrote: post #13

trial3 wrote: post #9

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

It's on the roadmap: https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-2-0#roadmap

oh, incredible! i'll keep my eyes peeled and will be switching to it from iTerm the moment it's available

Re: Libghostty is coming

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Post by ralgozino » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 6:29 PM UTC

Biganon wrote: post #18

On the very day ghostty refuses to load my theme because themes now start with an uppercase letter; the same day I'm no longer able to enter `^` (a caret) for some reason. Not to mention the multiple times where the clipboard suddenly and completely stopped functioning, in the last few weeks. I love ghostty, but if it keeps suddenly failing for no apparent reason I might have to go back to wezterm.

You seem to be using tip. Switch to using a stable release (1.2 is the latest one) instead if you don't want to be exposed to potential issues.

FWIW I've using tip since the closed beta and never had major issues.