[Aurornis]

Ghostty is an interesting project, but it’s not usable yet for those of us who use scrollback history search until they ship that feature https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189

The growing popularity of ghostty has made me realize a lot of people don’t use scroll back history search. I use it frequently to save time and avoid having to rerun time intensive tasks to pipe them through grep or tee everything to a file.

[jorl17]

This exactly! Can't move from iterm2 until this feature, which is absolutely essential to me, is implemented.

Love the work they're doing though!!

[s_trumpet]

The other thing keeping me on iTerm is Ghostty lacking tab support in quake mode

[tristan957]

I'm pretty certain that exists, at least on macOS, but I don't use that feature. I just follow development.

Source: ghosty maintainer

[xbar]

Are there any workarounds?

[antew]

In my ghostty config I use:

  scrollback-limit = 512000000
  keybind = super+f=write_scrollback_file:open

It writes it to a temporary file and then opens the file in the default text editor when I hit Cmd+F.

[jasonjmcghee]

tmux

But there's a whole thread on other workarounds etc. Apparently it's on the roadmap.

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/189