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Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by nevon »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #59
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 all the work you do! I had used terminal just a few dozen times before November — and now i am in terminal more than any app (even more than the web browser). It’s common for me to have 15-25 different terminal windows open for using Claude code. I shifted to Ghostty because I was looking for more features. Unfortunately, none of the features I wanted are available anywhere (though I’ve come to appreciate…

The next release includes a way to use a command palette to search for and jump between surfaces (windows, panes), which sounds like it partially addresses your third point. I had a small hand in it, by building the initial UI for the Linux version.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by sideeffffect »

bArray wrote: post #31

For anyone using this terminal that hates != (and others) being turned into a single character, I have the following to turn off ligatures: font-feature = -dlig font-feature = -liga font-feature = -calt This can be updated in `$HOME/.config/ghostty/config`.

Or maybe you can solve it like I did -- by using a font that does the (IMHO) right thing with regards to ligatures

https://github.com/0xType/0xProto#4-ligatures-that-dont-defo...

I can't recommend 0xProto enough, the only thing I'm sorry about is that I didn't find it sooner :)

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by linhns »

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…

Hi Mitchell, thanks for creating Ghostty. Been part of my workflow ever since I found it. Just a small question, when do you see Ghostty can fully replicate iTerm2 popular features like output copy/selection?

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by yearolinuxdsktp »

stonegray wrote: post #70
dr_dshiv wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for all the work you do! I had used terminal just a few dozen times before November — and now i am in terminal more than any app (even more than the web browser). It’s common for me to have 15-25 different terminal windows open for using Claude code. I shifted to Ghostty because I was looking for more features. Unfortunately, none of the features I wanted are available anywhere (though I’ve come to appreciate…

IMO this isn’t the job of the emulator. You can do this all in `tmux` for example. As for editing text, ghostty+tmux most definitely supports editing text with the mouse (even an in terminal right click menu!) although sounds like your intended use of select to delete isn’t common so you’ll need to do some customizations.

I’ve been using scroll back search for 15+ years with Terminal.app and iTerm2, and there’s no way that’s not the job of the terminal. You don’t know how good that is until you use it.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by txdv »

WD-42 wrote: post #71
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…

Mitchell, What has it been like witnessing terminal emulators make such a huge comeback with the advent of Claude Code et. all? I remember comments here in the early days of Ghostty along the lines of "Why is he working on a terminal emulator? We need people working on future problems, not the past!" Pretty funny considering I regularly hear people say they are in the terminal more than the browser now. Crazy times!

Once he fixes the past he will have more time to fix the future

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by pkulak »

WD-42 wrote: post #71
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…

Mitchell, What has it been like witnessing terminal emulators make such a huge comeback with the advent of Claude Code et. all? I remember comments here in the early days of Ghostty along the lines of "Why is he working on a terminal emulator? We need people working on future problems, not the past!" Pretty funny considering I regularly hear people say they are in the terminal more than the browser now. Crazy times!

Wait, really? So I’ve used the terminal for everything for decades, and now, because of vibe coding, all The Kids have joined me? I don’t even know how to feel about that. Better terminals are nice though.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by robinwhg »

WD-42 wrote: post #71
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…

Mitchell, What has it been like witnessing terminal emulators make such a huge comeback with the advent of Claude Code et. all? I remember comments here in the early days of Ghostty along the lines of "Why is he working on a terminal emulator? We need people working on future problems, not the past!" Pretty funny considering I regularly hear people say they are in the terminal more than the browser now. Crazy times!

He was on a podcast recently where he talked about that a little. It’s on Youtube.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by Jare »

paxys wrote: post #20
dwedge wrote: post #14

I like the look of this terminal, but it doesn't work correctly with SSH (top, ncdu for example) unless you hack the $TERM variable. It feels a bit vibecoded even though it isn't. To give a little productive criticism, one thing I really miss is when having tiled terminals, I want to be able to full screen one of them temporarily. Double click in iterm allows this, so does mod+f in i3wm. It really is the only thing s…

I have tried every possible setting but SSH ends up breaking more often than not. As opposed to iTerm which just works.

Same here. I have a Ghostty often open but end up using iTerm2 for pretty much everything. It's not just having to hack the TERM (which I ended up doing), it's that sometimes something about the TERM internally breaks anyway and I'm back to seeing ESC codes when I press an arrow. Quit & restart fixes it but it's just enough friction to keep me away.

Re: Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

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Post by computerfriend »

znpy wrote: post #37
mitchellh wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> To give a little productive criticism, one thing I really miss is when having tiled terminals, I want to be able to full screen one of them temporarily. I think you're looking for the `toggle_split_zoom` binding which has existed since Ghostty 1.0 and is default bound to `cmd+shift+enter` on macOS which is the same binding as iTerm. It's also visible in the menu and command palette. We recently added a kind of spli…

Can I take advantage of you being here and express some desiderata? 1. The quick terminal feature is ghostty's killer feature for me, I switched to ghostty because of it. Could we make it first-class feature? Like, i'd love to have tabs over there too (like in guake/yakuake). 2. I have a white on black theme (white text on black background) but when i split vertically/horizontally, the borders between one shell and t…

2. I think split-divider-color does what you want.
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