My New Favorite Terminal Just Dropped

Omg prime screaming tokio really caught me off guard

One of the things I am missing in Ghostty (and perhaps this is just configuration) that Warp has is that the input behaves exactly like things behave in a VSCode editor for example. Those two keybindings you mentioned (that now just works) Theo, are two of them. The others are things like CMD+Backspace, Option+Backspace, Options+Shift+arrow keys, etc. you get it. I can simply move faster in the terminal with those "niceaties". I am guessing one can also easily add things like predictive suggestions, auto completion, jump to folder etc. For me a terminal needs to help me get done what I need as quick and efficiently as possible without having to leave the keyboard.

I only see mac people praising it, and only see linux people complaining about it

Tried it out today and honestly cannot see a difference between ghostty and kitty. Also it doesn’t seem to let you control it with sockets or ipc yet, which I can understand since it’s pretty new. I will stick to ghostty for now simply because it’s a shiny new thing.

I think that warp deserves a bit more credit as an experiment on terminal UI in general. Ultimately I don't use it because it kind of fked up my nvim experience, but I thought that all the attempts to make text-editor-ey features for the terminal came from a good place and brought some really neat ideas to the table.

"I challenged myself to understand why their configs aren't empty" I dunno man, maybe cause when you click on the settings, the config shows up? XD

Just spent an hour playing with Ghostty on Ubuntu 24.04 GNOME, converting my Kitty config over. Tbh, sticking with Kitty since it's already fast enough and I need these features: - Toggle layouts (stack/grid/etc) - Quick hash selection with hints - Those nice gaps between splits + highlighted active pane

Just recently got a Mac from my job and I can't wait to try it out. The stock terminal was _fine_ for a week or so, then i switched to iTerm. But it's just so bloated and i feel like it gets in my way with features I never heard of and they were never explained. Session restore, shell integration, weird behavior around restoring window position/size, figuring out how to open a new terminal in the current folder (to jump out of IDE integrated terminals) was a puzzle on its own, etc.

You convinced me to switch from Warp to Ghostty on my Mac. Thanks 🤓

Thanks for the demo. I was looking for a new terminal and wasn't happy with the conventional alternatives.