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points by merb 2 days ago | 0 comments

btw I used iterm2 for years as well and sometimes tried others.

I now use ghostty it’s faster definitely. Yes it has some quirks which is hard to overcome as a iterm2 user. But I could live with it. I think ghostty is basically also the only alternative to iterm2

[–] s4i 2 days ago

While I'm not a hard core terminal emulator expert or tweaker, it was a bit of a learning curve to get into Ghostty after iTerm2. I hope this latest release makes it easier to edit the splits, haven't tested yet.

But the biggest thing that made me stay on Ghostty was that there's a freaking config file. With iTerm you had to export the profile and keybindings, and then import them on a new system which was clumsy, and easy to forget. Now ghostty.config is just one of my dotfiles, with a clear understandable git history, I love it.

[–] wpm 2 days ago

There's ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist and it's always been there

[–] s4i 1 day ago

OK that's the file I've been backing up and importing I believe. But it's in a binary format. There's `plutil -p ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist` but that doesn't help when looking at the git history.

[–] bbkane 2 days ago

Yup I switched to WezTerm from iTerm2 and being able to version control the settings is one of the biggest benefits (especially because WezTerm allows more complicated Lua scripts)

[–] asdf88990 2 days ago

Why put up with quirks when you have something that works for you? How much faster ghostty is in practical terms?

[–] merb 1 day ago

It really depends what you are doing. But copy and paste is super slow on iterm2, like coffee going slow.