Marie Katrine Ekeberg • 1/2/2025

Ghostty - first impressions and Emacs-like split panes how-to

The article provides a first-look review and tutorial for Ghostty, a new terminal emulator written in Zig. It highlights features like GPU acceleration, low resource usage, simple configuration, and, most notably, support for Emacs-style sequential keybindings for operations like splitting panes. The author shares their custom theme and explains how to configure window splitting and navigation similar to Emacs' windmove.

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#terminal emulator #Zig #Emac