A few months ago, a new terminal emulator was released. It’s called ghostty, and it has been a highly anticipated terminal emulator for a while, especially due to the coverage that it received from ThePrimeagen, who had been using for a while, while it was in private beta.

  • stochastictrebuchet@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    I give it a spin every month or so to see how it’s getting on. I’m on macOS.

    Every time I walk away unimpressed, despite its maker’s very deserved esteemed reputation.

    I’m probably not seeing something. What I do see, however, is that I can’t search my scrollback history, nor can I select text without a mouse.

    Also, pressing cmd+, on macOS opens the config inside TextEditor (yes, a separate GUI app) rather than in $EDITOR. It’s a small thing but I couldn’t figure out how to change it. Coming from Kitty, this drove me mad.

    I’m not sure who Ghostty is for. My feeling is it’s aiming to be an excellent, polished experience for casual terminal users. But I didn’t see anything that Kitty or just tmux anywhere can’t do.

    • F04118F@feddit.nl
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      3 days ago

      The article says it can debug TUIs, similar to what the browser’s debug panel does for web apps. That is useful for TUI developers.

      Other than that, I don’t know either what Kitty is missing.