Typometer is a tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text editors.
Editor latency is the delay between an input event and a corresponding screen update — in particular, the delay between keystroke and character appearance. While there are many kinds of delays (caret movement, line editing, etc.), typing latency is a major predictor of editor usability.
Check the article typing with pleasure to learn more about editor latency and its effects on typing performance.
> Ghostty 1.3 will continue the focus of making Ghostty the "best existing terminal emulator" by shipping the last remaining major missing features to achieve parity with other popular terminal emulators. Namely, we plan on shipping scrollback search and scrollbars for 1.3, at a minimum.
Are scrollback and scrollbars that hard to implement? Or do people just don't care that much about them that they are only added in 1.3?
I tried using various terminal emulators which don't support scrollback and scrollbars with tmux (which apparently most people do as a substitute). However for me that falls apart as soon as you SSH to a remote host and need to use tmux there as well. Maybe I'm just a console-noob...
It's projects like this that make me feel awe. I'm a full stack developer, but I feel like I don't have the low level knowledge to know all the work that goes into a project like a terminal emulator.
I love the app on my Mac, can't wait to go home and try it out
As someone who spends most of my time remoted in to other machines, it's very hard to give up the deep tmux integration on iTerm 2, but I do cast a wandering gaze at Ghostty now and then. I know some people think tmux is a dead-end so if an alternative ever really gains traction I could be convinced to switch.
Some Typometer measurements on i3 here:
https://imgur.com/a/RobYTWYlower is better
https://github.com/frarees/typometer
Typometer
Typometer is a tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text editors.
Editor latency is the delay between an input event and a corresponding screen update — in particular, the delay between keystroke and character appearance. While there are many kinds of delays (caret movement, line editing, etc.), typing latency is a major predictor of editor usability.
Check the article typing with pleasure to learn more about editor latency and its effects on typing performance.
Bonus VS Code:
> Ghostty 1.3 will continue the focus of making Ghostty the "best existing terminal emulator" by shipping the last remaining major missing features to achieve parity with other popular terminal emulators. Namely, we plan on shipping scrollback search and scrollbars for 1.3, at a minimum.
Are scrollback and scrollbars that hard to implement? Or do people just don't care that much about them that they are only added in 1.3?
I tried using various terminal emulators which don't support scrollback and scrollbars with tmux (which apparently most people do as a substitute). However for me that falls apart as soon as you SSH to a remote host and need to use tmux there as well. Maybe I'm just a console-noob...
It broke on upgrade - all built-in themes now have different names, but so far so good.
ghostty +list-themes
https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-2-0#breakin...
Nice, I've been running nightly to get access to the cursor shaders. I've found them really helpful, especially when screen sharing.
There's a lot of great engineering that goes into Ghostty (not just in the codebase itself, but also in how the project is managed and run).
It's a lot of fun following it, just to gleam best practices from.
It's projects like this that make me feel awe. I'm a full stack developer, but I feel like I don't have the low level knowledge to know all the work that goes into a project like a terminal emulator.
I love the app on my Mac, can't wait to go home and try it out
It look's like a good terminal emulator. The sad part is that on Linux it is Gnome only.
What do you mean? It uses Gtk but can be used from other desktop environments.
It uses libadwaita which is a GNOME only library. It will run on others GTK environments but won't match the UI styles.
I'm using it on Arch with Hyperland just fine.
Seems it is in every distro except the debians and fedoras, the ones I use. Also no GUI config. Guess I’ll wait a while.
I tried the app image once, and it looked promising.
Ghostty is both the greatest terminal emulator and Zig product ever made
As someone who spends most of my time remoted in to other machines, it's very hard to give up the deep tmux integration on iTerm 2, but I do cast a wandering gaze at Ghostty now and then. I know some people think tmux is a dead-end so if an alternative ever really gains traction I could be convinced to switch.
can you ctrl-f now?
Nope, it's planned for 1.3
still no search on MacOs, is it?
Not yet
https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-2-0#roadmap