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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by lawgimenez »

dr_kretyn wrote: post #287
lawgimenez wrote: post #270

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The description is in the documentation. What’s the trouble by clicking on it? It won’t take a second.

I don't know whether it's going to take a second or half a minute. I also don't know whether there will be an answer on the first page, or there's going to be a cute image and then I'll need to find "Getting Started" to learn how to get started with unknown project. My subjective experience on the internet is that if the gate isn't labelled, there's unlikely value on the other side.

Whatever dude, you hating because of a missing label on the intro page.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by [deleted] »

dr_kretyn wrote: post #294
mitchellh wrote: post #276

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This isn't a company, I'm not trying to convince you to use it, this is more of a personal art project. If that doesn't vibe with you that's completely fine. You're happy to not use it. I'm happy whether you use it or not. It's all good mate. (The first sentence in the docs page does explain what it is but if that's too much for you, it's all good.)

Fair. And I'm not here to convince you to cater to everyone. The explanation might be on the first page of the doc, but unless you click on it, you won't know. My prior experience is that docs don't necessarily tell "what" but rather "how" which means that you need to know why you're there. Their weight also varies. Thus, I learned to not speculate how many clicks and real time it's going to take me to learn about th…

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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by abenga »

tptacek wrote: post #290
dr_kretyn wrote: post #287

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know whether it's going to take a second or half a minute. I also don't know whether there will be an answer on the first page, or there's going to be a cute image and then I'll need to find "Getting Started" to learn how to get started with unknown project. My subjective experience on the internet is that if the gate isn't labelled, there's unlikely value on the other side.

People who are interested in this are talking about it because they're interested in it. Nobody is trying to convert you.

People who are interested in things learn about them at different times. You make it seem like it's "learn about it at the outset or gtfo".

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by redserk »

mitchellh wrote: post #48

Ghostty got a lot of hype (I cover this in my reflection below), but I want to make sure I call out that there is a good group of EXCELLENT terminals out there, and I'm not claiming Ghostty is strictly better than any of them. Ghostty has different design goals and tradeoffs and if it's right for you great, but if not, you have so many good choices. Shout out to Kitty, WezTerm, Foot in particular. iTerm2 gets some ha…

You've saved me an immeasurable amount of time and sanity over the last few years with the tools you've been building, and simply put: thank you.

I'm extremely excited to give Ghostty a whirl.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by KolenCh »

mitchellh wrote: post #48

Ghostty got a lot of hype (I cover this in my reflection below), but I want to make sure I call out that there is a good group of EXCELLENT terminals out there, and I'm not claiming Ghostty is strictly better than any of them. Ghostty has different design goals and tradeoffs and if it's right for you great, but if not, you have so many good choices. Shout out to Kitty, WezTerm, Foot in particular. iTerm2 gets some ha…

Looks great. Switching from wezterm and kitty before that, and the native feel on macOS is indeed better than those emulated tabs. Also it is really quite zero config where to me it seems only one line of color theme is needed, together with setting TERM for ssh. (Default font happens to be mine.) Bundling so much color theme felt a bit waste of space, but it is nice that I don’t need to define them myself which also makes switching theme tedious. I also love to see it lands at 1.0 where features, documentation, and promotional materials seem polished already.

Chances are, it will become my default terminal in 2025!

The only nitpicking is the doc does not seem to have a search function. It would be great if I can search color or ssh and find the relevant page address that immediately, without navigating the tree or relying on external search engines.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by exabyte »

Genuinely excited to see this land! Can't wait to try it out. This could be the last piece of the puzzle to a nearly flawless terminal experience

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by torstenvl »

mitchellh wrote: post #276
dr_kretyn wrote: post #258

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This isn't a company, I'm not trying to convince you to use it, this is more of a personal art project. If that doesn't vibe with you that's completely fine. You're happy to not use it. I'm happy whether you use it or not. It's all good mate. (The first sentence in the docs page does explain what it is but if that's too much for you, it's all good.)

It's constructive criticism. You don't have to respond with "Well get fucked then"

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by dbmnt »

howon92 wrote: post #150
mitchellh wrote: post #48

Ghostty got a lot of hype (I cover this in my reflection below), but I want to make sure I call out that there is a good group of EXCELLENT terminals out there, and I'm not claiming Ghostty is strictly better than any of them. Ghostty has different design goals and tradeoffs and if it's right for you great, but if not, you have so many good choices. Shout out to Kitty, WezTerm, Foot in particular. iTerm2 gets some ha…

I'm a fan of your work! I'm curious about how you decided to work on building a terminal for your next project among your other ideas. If you have time later, could you share your main motivation with us or link to an existing post if you already mentioned it elsewhere?

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-is-coming

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by johng »

modernerd wrote: post #108
gigatexal wrote: post #101

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Where does one add this? Is there a config file?

https://ghostty.org/docs/config On macOS, pressing ⌘+comma with Ghostty in focus opens the config file. Quit and reopen Ghostty to load the updated config (or bind another key to the reload_config action: https://ghostty.org/docs/config/keybind/reference#reload_con... ). Keybinds are explained here: https://ghostty.org/docs/config/reference#keybind

It also has reload config in the Apple menu items which I found handy as the default keybinds didn't seem to work for me.
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