Very impressed with ghostty so far, but: Main reasons for sticking with ITerm2 (for the moment at least):

- "Seamless" cut & paste with paste on "2 X right click" + "Trim trailing LF"

- Quadruple click "Smart selection"

- Brillant search with highlighting in text and scrollbar

- Support for OSC-1 "icon titles" in tabs, as opposed to OSC-0 "header title"

Lack of true colour support was the first thing that got me looking at other options

I really like to copy on select in the terminal. Terminal.app used to have a hack available to add this feature in, but since SIP days, it is no longer possible.

My most used "unique" feture of WezTerm and one of the main reasons I'd struggle to move to any of the alternatives is quick select mode[0] which massively speeds up copying or typing file names, hashes, IDs, etc. from the output of commands.

[0] https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/quickselect.html

I am not sure how to answer this.

Why choose a non-default anything? It feels like deeper down, you’re asking why anyone chooses anything.

These terminal emulators all behave slightly differently and have different strengths and weaknesses. Some are configurable. Some are programmable. Some feel “right”. Others can be made to feel “right”. Etc.

Why use any non-default application? Same answer for terminal emulators.