Julia Evans2d ago

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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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 threadmhoye
@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.
Mar 24 at 2:01pmWeb
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.)