If you haven't used Ghostty you should. 1.0 is out now. I have been using this as my main terminal emulator for quite a while at this point and I love it.
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Disclaimer - I am not using it. But since I started writing book-long ffmpeg commands on a regular basis I kind of get the appeal of LLM support in the terminal...
It seems extremely barebones for a 1.0 release. I wanted to change the font and went to the settings, and it just opened TextEdit with a blank file. Absolutely no indication as to how it's configured and didn't even respect $EDITOR. Feature set also seems very limited.
I’m happy it has a simple config file. I used to have to use plistutil to change settings for my terminal ;) Other than scrollback search it has all I need.
I'd prefer if I didn't have to guess what the config file syntax is and what options it has. I still haven't figured out how to disable whatever font smoothing it's applying.
Although I guess the font smoothing is a minor issue considering it's not really rendering text anyways.
I see a lot of people suggesting to switch to ghostty, but very few good reasons. What are the main reasons you will keep ghostty as your terminal emulator compared to your previous one?
Latency is a good reason for me, but so far I mostly saw people talking about tabs and a nice file format, so I was starting to wonder if this terminal emulator was bringing something to the table or was just pure hype.
How what where... I've been waiting impatiently for _some_ release. It's that hidden tool that everyone talks about :). Last I read online was jan26 for an official release!
have you ever tried https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/? Because I can't see anything Ghostty would do that WT doesn't but there's plenty of table-stake features missing. Like scroll back search or having splits inherit the cwd and tabs/windows going back to $HOME. I feel like I'm missing something.
I have always stuck to iTerm2 but tried WezTerm, Alacritty, and Kitty but kept going back. Didn't even THINK that performance would matter at all, but it is crazy how snappy Ghostty feels. I just installed it today and feel like I won't ever go back to iTerm2!
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I hope that it doesn't phone home like kitty does
Although I guess the font smoothing is a minor issue considering it's not really rendering text anyways.
(Although it would hurt a tiny bit to switch from a terminal emulator written in Rust to one written in another language 😂🦀)
- No find (https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189)
- No scrollbar (https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/111)
- No clickable file paths (with line number) (https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/1972)