What's better, an apple or an orange?

Depends.

My grandma uses those!

iTerm2 has way more features and configuration options

Ghostty is simpler and faster

Foot

what makes foot interesting? i don't see anything that stands out in the list of features.

why would you want your terminal to be interesting??? it's a substrate -- it just has to work seamlessly, and it does.

interesting in the sense of "why should i bother switching?". the default terminal is good enough. what great features does foot have that make it worth switching? what does it do better than other terminals. i didn't see anything in the feature list that sounded useful to me.

incidentally i just discovered that my default terminal does not support copying the tmux selection into the desktop clipboard. so now i am going to switch to a terminal that does support that.

I'd have thought that would be tmux's job, not the terminal's.

tmux runs in the terminal. it has no access to the desktop clipboard. only the terminal has that. therefore the terminal needs to accept messages from tmux when it signals that there is text for the clipboard.

Idk what you're running, but in Linux there is no such distinction. When e.g. vim wants to paste from or copy to the clipboard, it does not depend on the terminal.

What's better? Only works for some or works for anyone?

I used iTerm2 until I noticed that Ghostty’s New Tab opens at the current working directory.

Haven’t gone back since.

You can configure iterm2 to do whatever you want in new tabs or panes. This feature has been available for over a decade.

I have it reuse the same directory in a new pane. And my home directory in a new tab.

You can set that in iterm 2. I've had it that way for ages

Then I suppose my accolade is that Ghostty just does what I want without hunting through the configs.

> it depends on edits to my shell config files

No, it doesn't.

What you're describing is a Gnome Terminal issue.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697475

But OSC 7 is a standard supported across virtually all widely used terminal emulators anyway, so configuring your shell to emit it is a sensible thing to do regardless.

https://ghostty.org/docs/vt/osc/7

Hah, I actually just switched to Ghostty and had to turn that feature off. Yay for configuration.