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Who cares when Ghostty exists though...

I’m on ghostty but warp is a lot more than a terminal. I used to consider their product to be a shitty AI powered terminal until I saw a demo of it. Now I consider it as a fair AI agent application that has a good CLI integration and some notebook features.

Ghostty is an interesting project, but it’s not usable yet for those of us who use scrollback history search until they ship that feature https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189

The growing popularity of ghostty has made me realize a lot of people don’t use scroll back history search. I use it frequently to save time and avoid having to rerun time intensive tasks to pipe them through grep or tee everything to a file.

This exactly! Can't move from iterm2 until this feature, which is absolutely essential to me, is implemented.

Love the work they're doing though!!

Are there any workarounds?

In my ghostty config I use:

  scrollback-limit = 512000000
  keybind = super+f=write_scrollback_file:open

It writes it to a temporary file and then opens the file in the default text editor when I hit Cmd+F.

tmux

But there's a whole thread on other workarounds etc. Apparently it's on the roadmap.

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189

The other thing keeping me on iTerm is Ghostty lacking tab support in quake mode

I'm pretty certain that exists, at least on macOS, but I don't use that feature. I just follow development.

Source: ghosty maintainer

I like Ghostty, but it's still missing a few features I need. Warp was interesting, but it was honestly overwhelming when I was simply reaching for a terminal. For now, I'm back on Terminal.app until Ghostty catches up feature wise.

your spelled iTerm2 wrong :)

How do I run this on Windows and Linux?

Ghostty aims to be cross-platform (I think Windows support isn’t there yet but is planned), but iTerm2 is macOS-only.

I was on iTerm2 for a pretty loong time. You should try out Ghostty.

You meant "iTerm2 with no scrollbars and no scrollback history search" was spelled wrong.

(yes I know they are working on it; but I also know iTerm2 and Konsole have had them since about forever, and I use that feature a lot, so it's kinda major impediment)

How are all of you spelling WezTerm wrong.

Just started using this - it's pretty nice. Very customizable but it makes my oh-my-zsh setup look like crap with it's fonts.

I started using it since it's cross platform and I use chezmoi, but the config quickly gets complicated if you want things like folders in your tab titles, etc

iTerm2 is not in the same league when it comes to speed.

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