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Re: Ghostty 1.0

#61

Post by indigodaddy »

onli wrote: post #58
indigodaddy wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks really awesome. I'm going to sound like I don't belong in the hipster terminal club, but the reason I shied away from some of the other terminals is the lack of tabs, which looks like yours has when I did a quick Google question/search. (if wezterm and the like have them, I must have missed it or it wasn't obviously apparent in the settings how to achieve them). I know everyone will say but tmux and/or native m…

Wezterm does have tabs, and their related keyboard shortcuts are configurable. See https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/keyassignment/Spaw... for a starting point in the config.

Thanks!

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#62

Post by jbergstroem »

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've been a beta tester from very early on. I came for the performance but stayed for the stability. I've only had a rare few crashes and all but one was a duplicate in the bug tracker.

I thought I needed search but as Mitchell put it, not a 1.0 feature. Ripgrep was always the answer.

Very happy to share the ghostty experience with the world!

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#63

Post by indigodaddy »

mitchellh wrote: post #60
indigodaddy wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks really awesome. I'm going to sound like I don't belong in the hipster terminal club, but the reason I shied away from some of the other terminals is the lack of tabs, which looks like yours has when I did a quick Google question/search. (if wezterm and the like have them, I must have missed it or it wasn't obviously apparent in the settings how to achieve them). I know everyone will say but tmux and/or native m…

We've got native tabs and splits on both macOS and Linux. :) WezTerm has tabs but they're not native UI elements.

Right, I was admittedly too lazy to dig far enough with wezterm it appears. Was looking for the button to click I guess.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#64

Post by antirez »

After a quick test this looks incredibly good and fast. I'll use it as a terminal for the next weeks to see how it goes, but I have good feelings. Thank you so much for writing it.

EDIT: WOOOW, for me this is going to be a game changer. I was just working at Redis stuff outputting a ton of debugging info and results, and normally the terminal was the bottleneck, and here instead it printed half million of results in the blink of an eye. And then I could go back in the history without any performance degradation. I love this: for development of systems it makes a big difference.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#66

Post by GreenWatermelon »

indigodaddy wrote: post #55
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 really awesome. I'm going to sound like I don't belong in the hipster terminal club, but the reason I shied away from some of the other terminals is the lack of tabs, which looks like yours has when I did a quick Google question/search. (if wezterm and the like have them, I must have missed it or it wasn't obviously apparent in the settings how to achieve them). I know everyone will say but tmux and/or native m…

Wezterm has tabs right out of the box and they are fully customizable, though I prefer tmux since I prefer to not have my data extinguished if I accidentally close the terminal :D

WezTerm shines in ease and breadth of configurability due to using lua, so it's simple to have the theme change between light/dark depending on host OS theme.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by levlaz »

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…

Thank you for making this! I've been waiting to use it for quite some time. Really happy to take it for a spin.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

#68

Post by nhumrich »

In case anyone is wondering, this terminal appears to work just great on windows by using WSLg.

I installed on linux inside WSL, then launched it, and it looks/works great. Clipboard also works.

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by eliaspro »

loeg wrote: post #28

> For example, on macOS, Ghostty supports Quick Look, force touch, the macOS secure input API, built-in window state recovery on restart, etc. These are all native APIs provided by macOS that don't have equivalents in Linux desktop environments. I believe window state recovery has some approximate equivalent in GNOME and KDE, but maybe not exactly the same (and I don't know how easy it is to integrate with).

On X11, Gnome and KDE Plasma supported session/state restore, but this was based on XSMP and couldn't be simply reused for Wayland.

There's an ongoing standardization effort to provide equivalent functionality for Wayland: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...

KDE Plasma provides a "fake session restore" for the time being: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_reque...

Re: Ghostty 1.0

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Post by thenipper »

do_not_redeem wrote: post #10

I just want to say thanks for the minimum-contrast option: https://ghostty.org/docs/config/reference#minimum-contrast I've grown so sick of tools/TUIs that output unreadable text (like Debian's ls that defaults to dark-blue-on-black for directories). I look forward to never manually theming a terminal app again!

This is great. I’m middle aged and I’ve definitely noticed my eyesight needs more and more help in the contrast dept
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