Note the AUR package was removed because it's since been packaged in the official Arch repos.
There is a ghostty-git AUR repo for tracking the main branch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ghostty-git
Readit NewsI'm still using the built in MacOS terminal. What am I missing? I mostly do webdev - maybe terminal features are more important for other types of programming?
Apple Terminal has a lot of problems. As others have mentioned, it lacks support for 24 bit color, enforces minimum contrast ratios without any ability to disable them (meaning you cannot set arbitrary color themes), is hopelessly bad at Unicode rendering (particularly with multi-codepoint graphemes, see [1]), and in general misbehaves in other myriad ways [2][3][4].
With both Ghostty and iTerm2 now freely available, there's really no reason to use Terminal.app.
[1]: https://mitchellh.com/writing/grapheme-clusters-in-terminals
[2]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/26093
What is native UI in this context? My terminal emulator is also always basically a full-screen black textarea with white letters. No window borders, no tabs, no buttons, no menus, nothing else. Is there anything native UI would give me in this case (and what is a native UI, I can't find it defined anywhere)?
This gets brought up a lot, so I wrote about it here https://gpanders.com/blog/ghostty-is-native-so-what/
Hmm any way for this to work in kde plasma wayland?
In yakuake they have to register the Open/Retract shortcut with KGlobalAccel [1] and I don't think global shortcuts are implemented otherwise
[1] https://github.com/KDE/yakuake/blob/164d24b8bad1175199260c62...
It's a macOS-only feature, for now.
gpanders commented on Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim neovide.dev... · Posted by u/frankjr
If I had to guess, it's because terminals don't know what a cursor is. From the terminal's perspective, it is just told to print a solid blinking block at a certain location. Neovide knows what the cursor is because it is communicating directly with Neovim.
A terminal could do this, but there would need to be direct integration into Bash, ZSH, etc.
Terminals do have a concept of a cursor (there are dedicated control sequences for cursor management). There's no fundamental reason a terminal emulator couldn't implement an animated cursor like this, my guess as to why no one has done it is simply that it's not a very commonly requested feature.
Neither my plugin nor Chris' script have been updated in 2+ years. That's because it just keeps working. I owe a lot to Shaun and Chris for their work (my plugin is just a little glue code for interacting with the editor, they did all of the hard work).
[1]: https://github.com/oakmac/parinfer-lua
[2]: https://github.com/gpanders/nvim-parinfer/