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Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by eikenberry »

pdimitar wrote: post #167
eikenberry wrote: post #164

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> Alacritty I like but the lack of tabs is not acceptable for the moment... and before you ask: I hate tmux. So much more key presses to achieve basic functionality, it boggles my mind why people love it. But, to each their own obviously. Tabs usually mean mouse+click to switch which takes way more effort that a simple alt+number or similar keybinding used to switch "tabs" in tmux. I'd guess that some terminal emulat…

No, zero mouse usage, you can both address each tab by number and just moving between them. I wouldn't have any terminal emulator without the latter feature at least, and all I've tried support it. I hate mixed mouse + keyboard workflows as well.

Just like zero mouse and same single keypress tabs w/ tmux... my point was that this is not a distinguishing characteristic of terminal tabs.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by pdimitar »

eikenberry wrote: post #361
pdimitar wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, zero mouse usage, you can both address each tab by number and just moving between them. I wouldn't have any terminal emulator without the latter feature at least, and all I've tried support it. I hate mixed mouse + keyboard workflows as well.

Just like zero mouse and same single keypress tabs w/ tmux... my point was that this is not a distinguishing characteristic of terminal tabs.

Been a long time since I last tried tmux but was not switching between panes something like Ctrl-B + Ctrl-? I don't remember but if it was that it's still much more than Super-Left/Right.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by danhof_sss »

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.…

I built a Windows terminal emulator (TerminalNexus) and scrollback search was one of the first things I prioritized. Ctrl+F opens a search dialog with regex and case sensitivity, and the buffer size is configurable per shell profile. No tmux needed.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by danhof_sss »

homebrewer wrote: post #105
jcgl wrote: post #48

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> Kitty I don't remember why I rejected. Maybe worth another look at then? I'm far from a Kitty power user, but it does pretty much everything else I want it to, including working as a quake-style terminal[0]. And you can extend it with kittens[1] if you so desire. Also, the next release should presumably include smooth scrolling[2] which I'm quite looking forward to. Maybe more than any one feature though, I appreci…

Kitty is the best one. It has several features which have proven so useful I wasn't able to stay on anything else for more than a couple of hours (including the one this topic is about). Ctrl+Shift+G wraps the output of the previous command into a pager (say, less). You often only know you needed a pager after that output is printed. Ctrl+Shift+E highlights all links on the current screen and assigns short alphanumer…

These small quality-of-life features make a big difference. In my terminal (TerminalNexus, Windows) I added per-tab session colors - click a palette icon, pick a color, and the terminal background and tab header change for that session. Simple but it's saved me from running commands in the wrong environment more than once.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by TheFlyingFish »

jorams wrote: post #291
guerrilla wrote: post #271

How is it possible that this thing constantly gets so much hype? It's a terminal emulator.

It helps a bit that it's written in Zig, but its primary differentiating feature in the sea of terminal emulators is that it's created by mitchellh, who is kind of a celebrity in some circles.

He's living the hacker dream. Made a billion bucks, then went right back to writing code. People upvote because they wish they were him.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by tinodb »

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…

Thanks for creating Ghostty! Is there a chance to have shorter release cycles? I switched to nightly because of the mem bug and search, but ideally would like to be on a more stable channel.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by firemelt »

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…

bro please update ur support for not gtk DE please

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by cess11 »

loeg wrote: post #233
cess11 wrote: post #100

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Back in 2018 I thought it felt kind of sluggish and consumed quite a bit of resources, but looked pretty. Have they improved on performance since then?

Are you sure you're thinking of the same terminal? Its standout feature has been performance. Granted, that was 10+ years ago, but I've never noticed it regressing.

Yeah, I'm sure, used it for work on a Ubuntu box over the summer 2018, didn't bring it with me home.
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