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jdormit•37 minutes ago
I recently switched from vterm to ghostel, and it is generally much, much better - noticeably faster (e.g. fancy TUI apps that try to refresh the whole terminal every frame actually work), more reliable input handling, and a nicer ELisp API.

That being said, there are still some rough edges. Sometimes it fails to properly clear the terminal, leaving junk at the top of the buffer before the currrent prompt line. And on a couple of occasions it has totally frozen, with no fix other than killing the buffer and starting over.

Overall, it’s very promising and totally usable as a daily driver, but it needs a bit of polish and bug fixes before I would consider it mature.

baokaola•23 minutes ago
Ghostel co-maintainer here: Understand if you don't have a repro, but if you ever have something actionable we'd love it if you filed an issue, or have 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 is replicating the libghostty-vt internal data into an Emacs buffer while only replacing the parts that need to be replaced. We have property based tests to exercise this a lot, but sometimes things slip through.

The latest released version as I'm writing this should have improved lifecycle handling, so maybe it also fixes some of your issues.

As you say, the project is still in the early phase so hopefully, we can iron things out over time.

KallDrexx•8 minutes ago
I came across this the other day and it's come close to helping me make the switch to emacs.

I've been de-IDEing myself lately for a variety of reasons. I've been trying to figure out if my future is tmux + neovim or emacs.

I got setup most of the way with vanilla neovim and customizing to my liking pretty easy.

I like the ideas of emacs and there are things that are compelling, but oh man it feels imprenetable, especially with how easy I was able to get up and running with neovim.

aftergibson•25 minutes ago
This is working great, it plus the Claude code integration has really adjusted how much I use Emacs. It's become a bit of a hub for me now.