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Since the review doesn't mention any downsides I'm gonna go ahead and share one. This might seem like a tiny thing but relatively slow startup turned out to be a total deal breaker for me. In my workflow, I open and close a lot of terminal windows. Sometimes I spawn terminals just for a few seconds to run a single command and then close them. Kitty and Alacritty launch instantaneously whereas Ghostty has a noticeable lag which was just infuriating to me. Also, it doesn't have any useful (for me) features not present in Kitty so yeah, I guess it's not for me.
~~I thought you were going to talk about the lack of terminal scrollback.~~
Edit: I was misremembering. There is scrollback, but you can't search it. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189
Well, I didn't even get to this part. But... it doesn't have scrollback? Really? That's crazy!
Ghostty has scrollback, I have no idea what that person is talking about. I think it is missing scroll bars, but you can scroll using the mouse wheel or shift+pgup/dn. The buffer is also not very big by default but I think it can be changed via config file.
And search.
This is why I use
footin its client-server mode. It allows basically instant startup because the server is already running in the background (even on my Core 2 Duo Thinkpad).The foot clan is strong
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Me too