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 ;)

Missing scrollbars. That and ctrl f are my two annoyances, apart from that I love ghostty and use it daily at work.

People don’t care about advanced use cases when fundamentals are missing

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.

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.

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.

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.

It’s planned for v1.3 in March 2026.

https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-2-0#roadmap

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

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

This is the blocker for me as well.