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points by JuniperMesos 1 day ago | 0 comments
Libghostty is a very cool project, this is an exciting release, kudos to mitchellh for spearheading this as well as all the people who have made contributions to the project. I use ghostty as my primary terminal emulator today and a few months ago I was experimenting with using libghostty in an android project that I plan to jump back to someday when I have the time, so I personally benefit from this work.
[–] shoobiedoo 1 day ago
Indeed it is. It feels like libghostty was only announced yesterday and already there are things like ghostel for emacs that are imo far above and beyond the other emacs terminal options.
[–] Conscat 1 day ago
Ghostel is the first Emacs terminal emulator I've used that really just worked. Vterm and EAT were nice at for time but it's like night and day to Ghostel.
[–] chuckadams 1 day ago
As of recently, the embedded terminal in Jetbrains IDEs is also based on libghostty.
[–] AnggaSP 1 day ago
And it has been such an upgrade.

There was so many little things that bugs me with JediTerm, unsupported escape sequences, bugged visualization, truncated output, you name it.

Now it just work, like it supposed to.

[–] asa123 1 day ago
ghostel makes vterm feel so sad!
[–] iLemming 1 day ago
Yesss! Finally I can run nvim +term inside the Emacs frame and then call emacs -nw in there. Matryoshkamacs is the dream. We all live in a simulation.
[–] 9dev 1 day ago
You emacs people are so weird.
[–] biorach 22 hours ago
Oh yeah, like you've never succumbed to temptation of nested editor sessions. Freak.
[–] iLemming 23 hours ago
I'm a vimmer. I use Emacs only because it vims better.
[–] ephaeton 22 hours ago
wow. Even today, all the modal interface options for emacs feel too slow for my fingers. Maybe a different terminal root will fix that? I should reinvestigate.
[–] tasuki 17 hours ago
In what way does it vim better?
[–] iLemming 14 hours ago
You can literally type that question into any search engine or LLM. Don't challenge me like we're on a school bus. I'm a die-hard vimmer, been hjkl-ming for 17 years. I don't mince my modes here.