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Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by tessierashpool9 »

robenkleene wrote: post #479
tessierashpool9 wrote: post #443

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so, it's convenience. fair enough. i'm just trying to make sense of why it is so popular on hn. i often see stuff rated to mount everest here and i just don't get it. and then i'm wondering is it me? or is it them? am i one of those weak engineers who just don't know what's going on? that's all.

Since you asked, your point above effectively says "why don't you just work around your terminal emulator being slow by making more work for yourself?" That's not a compelling argument.

not really - the use case mentioned where you suffer from a slow terminal is a code smell as far as i am concerned

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by conaclos »

christophilus wrote: post #490

I use Foot as my terminal and Niri as my WM. It’s a great combo. Niri handles splits for me, and I don’t need tabs. I also turn off all window decorations, so my terminal content gets 100% of the terminal’s screen real estate-- so I don't need a native UI. All that said, it looks like Ghosty can be configured to match this setup, so I’ll give it a try. I just wanted to mention Foot to anyone who is running Linux. Foo…

I am a happy foot user and I am considering switching from Sway to Niri. What has been your experience with Niri? One thing that concerns me about Niri is that it is not wlroots based. This means that many tools I accustomed to don't work with Niri. Do you have some dedicated tools for screen sharing, screen recording, screen printing, multi-monitor management, ...?

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by m1keil »

RainyDayTmrw wrote: post #211

As someone who uses the default terminal app, I'm curious to learn about other people's use-cases where the choice of terminal app makes a difference and how.

I really like to copy on select in the terminal. Terminal.app used to have a hack available to add this feature in, but since SIP days, it is no longer possible.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by jmorenoamor »

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…

Terminals are always welcome :) I hope you can add Win supoort so I can try it at work.

Congrats for the release and happy new year.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by m1keil »

johan914 wrote: post #285

The default macOS terminal app has CMD UP/DOWN to move to previous prompts. This is one of my pet peeves about terminal apps, they seem to lack this command?

Ghostty supports it (like many other terminals) - it is called shell integration and it is supposed to be enabled by default, just like in Terminal.app.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by homebrewer »

Alifatisk wrote: post #472

I couldn't find any screenshots, also, why is this being hyped so much? What have I missed?

I'm wondering about this too. I looked at it and don't see any reasons to switch away from kitty, which is just as fast, has more features, and has never given me trouble. Kovid is a fantastic developer who's very responsive and fixes bugs in sometimes literal minutes after they were reported.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by rharb »

Congratulations on making it to the launch!

I really appreciate the levelheadedness of your responses regarding Ghostty, and how clear you are to be speaking positively for your thing instead of negatively about anyone else's.

Going to build it at lunch today and give it a shot :)

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by rererereferred »

Filligree wrote: post #519
computerfriend wrote: post #408

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't plaintext configuration files standard? It's how I configure most applications (and how I like it, because it makes the configuration shareable). As a DSL, it's key-value pairs. It doesn't get much simpler than that.

That could have been acceptable. The problem is it's empty; it should instead contain the default configuration.

You can see the default configuration by running `ghostty +show-config --default`

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by dcre »

xoa wrote: post #518
dcre wrote: post #338

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an example, here is the Helix editor (neovim looks just as bad) in Terminal.app vs. ghostty (would look just as good in any other modern terminal). https://imgur.com/a/terminal-app-left-vs-truecolor-tddRL0C

I appreciate you making an effort to visually display things, but FWIW I don't think that (or sibling) really gets to the root issue, which is less of capability then practical convenience and compatibility. Mac native Terminal perfectly well supports 256 colors (or arbitrary 16 colors with themes), which I've used, so you could absolutely make both sides look identical there. Unless someone is regularly viewing phot…

My example is precisely about practical convenience. If I try to do something very normal in Terminal.app, namely use a text editor with a theme, it will look like garbage.
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