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Ghostty is awesome and I almost dropped iTerm for it until I hit cmd-f and nothing happened. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state

Ghostty is awesome and I almost dropped iTerm for it until I hit cmd-f and nothing happened. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues?q=is%3Aissue%2...

uzername 1y ago
Missing search and weird ssh control character issues are my blockers. It's great otherwise!
- PyWoody 1y ago
  Reposting my comment from [0]: Have you tried the suggestions in https://ghostty.org/docs/help/terminfo#ssh? I don't know what issue you may be experiencing but this solved my issue with using htop in an ssh session. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359239 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359239
senderista 1y ago
This is the blocker for me as well.
sevg 1y ago
I wonder what people would discuss in all these ghostty posts if cmd-f had been present from the start. It’s getting a little boring hearing about it in every post! There’s interesting things to discuss here about LLM tooling and approaches to coding. But of course we’d rather complain about cmd-f ;)
- wahnfrieden 1y ago
  People don’t care about advanced use cases when fundamentals are missing
  - sevg 1y ago
    Advanced use cases? Did you read the article? Making the update modal less intrusive isn’t an “advanced use case”, or even prime material for dicussion ;) The article is mainly about LLM-assisted coding, regardless of the terminal being used.
- do_not_redeem 1y ago
  Since we're here, I'm just waiting for them to implement drag-and-drop on KDE. Right now it only works on GNOME, and although Ghostty is great I'm not going to switch to GNOME just for a terminal emulator.
  - mikkupikku 1y ago
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- ghosty141 1y ago
  Missing scrollbars. That and ctrl f are my two annoyances, apart from that I love ghostty and use it daily at work.
jumploops 1y ago
Yeah I quickly (and unfortunately!) switched back to Warp, as Ghostty was a little too barebones for my use case. Word to the wise: Ghostty’s default scrollback buffer is only ~10MB, but it can easily be changed with a config option.
JimDabell 1y ago
It’s planned for v1.3 in March 2026. https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-2-0#roadmap https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-2-0#roadmap
nevon 1y ago
Funnily enough, I spent the last weekend implementing search in Ghostty using Claude. There's already a kinda working implementation of the actual searching, so most of the job was just wiring it up to the UI. After two sessions of maybe 10 hours in total, I had basic searching with highlighting and go to next/previous match working in the Linux frontend. The search implementation is explicitly a work in progress though, so not something that's ready for general use. That said, it certainly made me appreciate the complexity of such a "basic" feature when I started thinking about how to make this work when tailing a stream of text.
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uzername 1y ago

Missing search and weird ssh control character issues are my blockers. It's great otherwise!

PyWoody 1y ago
Reposting my comment from [0]: Have you tried the suggestions in https://ghostty.org/docs/help/terminfo#ssh? I don't know what issue you may be experiencing but this solved my issue with using htop in an ssh session. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359239 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45359239

senderista 1y ago

This is the blocker for me as well.

sevg 1y ago

I wonder what people would discuss in all these ghostty posts if cmd-f had been present from the start. It’s getting a little boring hearing about it in every post! There’s interesting things to discuss here about LLM tooling and approaches to coding. But of course we’d rather complain about cmd-f ;)

wahnfrieden 1y ago
People don’t care about advanced use cases when fundamentals are missing
- sevg 1y ago
  Advanced use cases? Did you read the article? Making the update modal less intrusive isn’t an “advanced use case”, or even prime material for dicussion ;) The article is mainly about LLM-assisted coding, regardless of the terminal being used.
do_not_redeem 1y ago
Since we're here, I'm just waiting for them to implement drag-and-drop on KDE. Right now it only works on GNOME, and although Ghostty is great I'm not going to switch to GNOME just for a terminal emulator.
- mikkupikku 1y ago
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ghosty141 1y ago
Missing scrollbars. That and ctrl f are my two annoyances, apart from that I love ghostty and use it daily at work.

jumploops 1y ago

Yeah I quickly (and unfortunately!) switched back to Warp, as Ghostty was a little too barebones for my use case. Word to the wise: Ghostty’s default scrollback buffer is only ~10MB, but it can easily be changed with a config option.

JimDabell 1y ago

It’s planned for v1.3 in March 2026. https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-2-0#roadmap https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-2-0#roadmap

nevon 1y ago

Funnily enough, I spent the last weekend implementing search in Ghostty using Claude. There's already a kinda working implementation of the actual searching, so most of the job was just wiring it up to the UI. After two sessions of maybe 10 hours in total, I had basic searching with highlighting and go to next/previous match working in the Linux frontend. The search implementation is explicitly a work in progress though, so not something that's ready for general use. That said, it certainly made me appreciate the complexity of such a "basic" feature when I started thinking about how to make this work when tailing a stream of text.

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