Biggest issue I have with Ghostty is that on the mac with Nano.. you can't copy and paste multiple lines into the editor. It's something about how the terminal handles "bracketed pasting".. but yet this isn't an issue with iterm2 and term.
I've used Ghostty as my default terminal since I set up my new computer a couple of months ago. The only issue I have is the missing search which I often reach for to look through output that I didn't pipe anywhere.
Agreed. This is the only thing stopping it from being the undisputed best terminal for me. I’ve referred 2 people to it in the last few months, both like it but didn’t adopt it because of this.
I love 99% of what Ghostty brings to the table as a terminal replacement but the copy / paste issues with it are incredibly frustrating and I run into them almost daily.
> Might be $TERM needs to be set or you need to add ghostty to terminfo
Yeah, except that the specific terminfo needed for ghostty isn't installed anywhere on the boxes you ssh into ... you need to manually install it on everysingle one of them.
That in and of itself makes it truly painful to switch to ghostty.
And there are still a lot of other issues, like e.g. building the tip is a freaking nightmare of dependencies and weird issues (hard reliance on specific versions of the zig compiler and of something called "blueprint compiler", etc...)
> the specific terminfo needed for ghostty isn't installed anywhere on the boxes you ssh into ... you need to manually install it on every single one of them.
Yeah this is going to be an issue with any of the newer terminal emulators. No big deal. Updating terminfo is easy. If you can't then just set TERM=xterm
> Not ready for prime time by a mile IMO.
Nah, the issue is your lack of experience and understanding of the basics is terminals.
I don't think you've used Ghostty in a while. It has auto installing terminfo when ssh-ing.
Also, every program ever depends on a certain version of a compiler, so I don't understand this complaint. Ghostty requires Zig 0.14. That's it, not a specific compiler hash. blueprint-compiler is packaged for pretty much every distribution these days.
I spend like half of my time in the terminal and search is an absolute deal breaker for me. Guys have created an incredibly cool terminal and surely they use it a lot but they... just don't search? I have nothing but respect and admiration for the project, just wondering what their day to day terminal usage experience looks like if they don't need to look for things.
