Comment by jaywcarman

16 hours ago

I've tried Ghostty and it's great, but Kitty's hints mode[1] is the one feature keeping me from switching from Kitty to Ghostty. There are quite a few discussions around this and similar features in the Ghosstty-org/ghostty Discussions[2] which I follow. Most of them are references from ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2394[3]. Maybe now that Ghostty has finished implementing Kitty graphics hints will be next .

[1]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/hints/

[2]: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions

[3]: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2394

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pjjpo  15 minutes ago

Out of curiosity if Kitty works well for you what would be the reason to switch to Ghostty? I've never tried Kitty before but now want to see what it's like since it seems quite advanced.

nullwarp  12 hours ago

How have I not heard of hints mode before, that is amazing. Thanks for pointing it out I need to go remember some new hotkeys now.

  • elcritch  8 hours ago

    Definitely stealing those hotkeys for my own terminal emulator! Was wanting similar functionality but wasn't sure of the shortcuts to use.

Graziano_M  16 hours ago

Yeah this is what is keeping me from using ghostty. Unfortunately I think that discussion is dead and no one agrees on the design of the three or so separate parts. I maintain a fork with quick select for my own purposes but I can’t use it at work.

  • Graziano_M  12 hours ago

    BTW here is my fork: https://github.com/Grazfather/ghostty/tree/quick_select

        link = copy_to_clipboard=[0-9a-f]{7,40}
    link = open=https?://[a-zA-Z0-9.]+[-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\\+.~#?&//=]*
    keybind = ctrl+o>y=quick_select

    Far from perfect. No way to bind to specific action:regex pair, so `ctrl+o` then `y` will show hints for both urls, which it'll try to open, and git hashes, which it'll copy to the clipboard.