Matt BirchlerJan 3, 2025
My lil' Ghostty terminal config https://birchtree.me/blog/my-lil-ghosty-terminal-config-2/
My lil' Ghostty terminal config

I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new terminal emulator of choice. For me the killer feature is how fast it is, putting the most popular apps to shame (Apple Terminal and iTerm, specifically). I'm not a power

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Show threadJay PJan 3, 2025
@matt Not being able to CMD-F to search in it is my biggest struggle so far
Show threadMatt BirchlerJan 3, 2025
@nocturne1 Ooh, what's the use case here? Is it to find things in your prompt history or searching things in the terminal window when there's a lot of output?
Show threadJay PJan 3, 2025
@matt Yes to both. Also sometimes handy in most terminals as it highlights the text even when it's newly showing up onto the screen.
Show threadJay PJan 3, 2025
@matt There are some hacky suggestions to add a similar functionality here, but they are pretty messy. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189
Search scrollback · Issue #189 · ghostty-org/ghostty

A major missing feature is the ability to search scrollback, i.e. cmd+f on Mac, ctrl+F on Linux. This issue can be implemented in multiple steps, not just one giant PR: Core search functionality in...

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@nocturne1 Got it, cool thank you!
Jan 3, 2025 at 11:16pmWeb