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Terminal emulator powered by libghostty

10 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2026-06-18 · latest 2026-10-27

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  1. …be done) - Libghostty powers a really popular and powerful terminal emulator for emacs (Ghostel): https://github.com/dakra/ghostel - Libghostty's speed is used by Antithesis to fuzz popular terminal programs and has directly led to…
    comment by mitchellh · 2026-10-27 · in Ghostty 1.4
  2. …in emacs and using claude code. If you want to run it through an emacs terminal, consider using https://github.com/dakra/ghostel#ghostel (or vterm, or eat)
    comment by internet_points · 2026-08-27 · in Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode
  3. You should give https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell and https://github.com/dakra/ghostel a shot. With ghostel I genuinely mix up which window (frame) is emacs rather than the native Ghostty window.
    comment by greggroth · 2026-08-25 · in What's new in Emacs 31.1
  4. Maybe try ghostel with evil-mode, if you're okay with Emacs? https://github.com/dakra/ghostel
    comment by srijan4 · 2026-08-04 · in The Warp Agent CLI
  5. …our code to have a better error message and make it clear that the problem is the Zig version. See https://github.com/dakra/ghostel/pull/541 jFYI, Ghostty issue to support 0.16 is here: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/issues/12228…
  6. …Eshell is the thing that's got me staying on EAT right now. Ghostel looks really nice though! [0]: https://github.com/dakra/ghostel/issues/426
  7. I agree. And I would also prefer if the link went to https://github.com/dakra/ghostel instead of the documentation which is not that helpful if you don't know what the project is.
  8. …submitting the link. Have a look at the GitHub repo which is a bit nicer for a quick overview: https://github.com/dakra/ghostel To add some context, Ghostel is a terminal emulator for Emacs powered by libghostty-vt. There's a feature…
  9. …the information get to us some other way. The junk at the top of the screen sounds like it could be https://github.com/dakra/ghostel/issues/495 and it should be fixed on later versions. But maybe you're seeing another bug. The tricky part…
  10. …me, but annoying. Being a co-maintainer, I'm a bit biased, but I think you should try Ghostel ( https://github.com/dakra/ghostel ) if you aren't already. And if you are, you should report bugs so we can fix them :)