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points by shoobiedoo 1 day ago | 0 comments

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 23 hours 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 21 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 13 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.