I wonder what people would discuss in all these ghostty posts if cmd-f had been present from the start. It’s getting a little boring hearing about it in every post!

There’s interesting things to discuss here about LLM tooling and approaches to coding. But of course we’d rather complain about cmd-f ;)

Funnily enough, I spent the last weekend implementing search in Ghostty using Claude. There's already a kinda working implementation of the actual searching, so most of the job was just wiring it up to the UI. After two sessions of maybe 10 hours in total, I had basic searching with highlighting and go to next/previous match working in the Linux frontend. The search implementation is explicitly a work in progress though, so not something that's ready for general use.

That said, it certainly made me appreciate the complexity of such a "basic" feature when I started thinking about how to make this work when tailing a stream of text.

It’s planned for v1.3 in March 2026.

https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-2-0#roadmap

Yeah I quickly (and unfortunately!) switched back to Warp, as Ghostty was a little too barebones for my use case.

Word to the wise: Ghostty’s default scrollback buffer is only ~10MB, but it can easily be changed with a config option.

Missing search and weird ssh control character issues are my blockers. It's great otherwise!

This is the blocker for me as well.