Julia Evans

so happy that ghostty implemented terminal scrollback search! https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-3-0#scrollback-search

i was already using it and that fixes the only real issue I had

1.3.0 - Release Notes

Release notes for Ghostty 1.3.0, released on March 9, 2026.

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Mar 24 at 1:36pmWeb
Show threadmhoye2d ago
@b0rk What have you found about GhosTTY that convinced you to try it and stick with it?
Show threadJulia Evans2d ago

@mhoye some things I like about it:

- it has a text config file (unlike iTerm which I was using before)
- I like the defaults, my config file is like 7 lines
- it's cross-platform so theoretically I could use it on Linux
- it's fast

I don't remember why I switched anymore, I think probably I started using it because it was new and I wanted to try it out and then it worked well so I stuck with it

Show threadJulia Evans2d ago
@mhoye also it has a "terminal inspector" feature (kind of like the web inspector in the browser) which I don't use but I just think is cool
Show threadmhoye2d ago
@b0rk Thank you, that's a good list. I'm using Alacritty, which is nice and fast but exceedingly barebones. I'll take a look at GhosTTY.
Show threadmhd2d ago
@mhoye @b0rk Yeah, I wish Alacritty had some more platform integration etc., given that it seems the only one that seems to say no to slop.
Show threadmhoye2d ago
@mhd @b0rk that’s why I started using it, yeah. Sometimes choices are sacrifices.
Show threadjtheo2d ago
@mhoye @b0rk I tried a couple of times to see if I like it more, but I always coming back to WezTerm
Show threadben2d ago
@jtheo @mhoye @b0rk yeah I’ve been using wezterm for similar reasons: text config and good defaults. (Though I only use it on macos, as there are more options on linux.)
Show threadChris is.2d ago
@b0rk @mhoye There's one thing I truly miss about iTerm2 with it, but apparently that's in progress, and that's support for tmux control mode, so that I can pop out tmux sessions in windows, instead of just in the terminal.
Show threadJulia Evans2d ago
@offby1 @mhoye oh that's super cool, I didn't know ghostty was working on that!
Show threadChris is.2d ago

@b0rk @mhoye https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/1935

There's slow movement; I suspect it's not a simple feature especially cross-platform.

Feature: Support for tmux's Control Mode · Issue #1935 · ghostty-org/ghostty

tmux has a feature called Control Mode, which allows a client i.e a terminal emulator such as Ghostty to manage tmux panes. This has the benefit of enabling native integration with the terminal emu...

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Show threadtrisweb2d ago
@b0rk never heard of ghostty… going to try it, thanks!
Show threadednl 🇪🇺2d ago
@b0rk They were also recently in the news: https://www.heise.de/news/Ghostling-macht-Terminal-Emulation-zur-C-Bibliothek-11222477.html (🇩🇪) or: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47461378 for showing how to embed their engine as a C/Zig library.
Ghostling macht Terminal-Emulation zur C-Bibliothek

Das Ghostty-Projekt macht seine Terminal-Engine als einbettbare Library verfügbar. Eine Demo zeigt, wie wenig Code dafür nötig ist.

heise online
Show threadednl 🇪🇺2d ago
@b0rk (Heise made a fun illustration!)
Show threadPau Ruiz Safont2d ago

@b0rk
This was one of the two last features I was missing that got introduced in 1.3.0, the other being the scrollbar.

Now it's the only terminal I use, in Linux.

Also, don't miss out the recently added notifications on command completion. It's surprisingly good at reducing reaction time to long-running commands, which I found out I use very frequently.

https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-3-0#command-finished-notifications

1.3.0 - Release Notes

Release notes for Ghostty 1.3.0, released on March 9, 2026.

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