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alkh | 3 months ago

I have been pretty happy with Alacritty for a while but just tried Ghostty and am a little bit mind-blown. The fact that it has a built-in theme picker is insanely convenient for people working on multiple computers at the same time(so the same theme might not work everywhere).

Overall, it literally looks like a better Alacritty alternative. The creator(s) did a great job!

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mort96|3 months ago

The only thing I'm missing from ghostty is scrollback search. It's planned AFAIU, I hope it gets there eventually. Otherwise, ghostty has been pretty good.

(I know you can fake scrollback search with tmux. It's not the same.)

klooney|3 months ago

There seems to be a contingent that just doesn't use scroll back search, which I find kind of baffling.

OberstKrueger|3 months ago

The first time I went through the theme picker, I was tickled to see a theme I had made years ago included. Realized later it was due to it including all of the themes from iTerm2 Color Schemes automatically.

It made for a more fun first experience with a terminal emulator than I expected to have.

seanw444|3 months ago

Same here. Any replacement I moved to needed to have content centering, where the margin around the cells is equal in both dimensions when the cells don't fit perfectly into the window. Kinda crazy that it's not a feature in a lot of terminals I checked over the years. I wouldn't even consider myself OCD, but it drove me nuts until I found a terminal that let me do it.

chrysoprace|3 months ago

I've always wanted to like Alacritty but they've had an open issue to support ligatures since 2017 and they're not in a rush to implement them.

Now the only feature I need in Ghostty is Windows support.

Imustaskforhelp|3 months ago

> Now the only feature I need in Ghostty is Windows support.

I use ghostty on my mac but have you forgot about ctrl + f to find things support in ghostty (I don't think it has ctrl f support iirc right?)

hnlmorg|3 months ago

I thought built in theme pickers were the norm…?

alkh|3 months ago

Lol, mb, but I don't believe that's the case for Alacritty. As for the Apple Terminal, it is not great

alwillis|3 months ago

The theme picker in Ghostty is above and beyond anything I’ve ever seen in a terminal.