Typometer is a tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text editors.
Editor latency is the delay between an input event and a corresponding screen update — in particular, the delay between keystroke and character appearance. While there are many kinds of delays (caret movement, line editing, etc.), typing latency is a major predictor of editor usability.
Check the article typing with pleasure to learn more about editor latency and its effects on typing performance.
> Ghostty 1.3 will continue the focus of making Ghostty the "best existing terminal emulator" by shipping the last remaining major missing features to achieve parity with other popular terminal emulators. Namely, we plan on shipping scrollback search and scrollbars for 1.3, at a minimum.
Are scrollback and scrollbars that hard to implement? Or do people just don't care that much about them that they are only added in 1.3?
I tried using various terminal emulators which don't support scrollback and scrollbars with tmux (which apparently most people do as a substitute). However for me that falls apart as soon as you SSH to a remote host and need to use tmux there as well. Maybe I'm just a console-noob...
It's projects like this that make me feel awe. I'm a full stack developer, but I feel like I don't have the low level knowledge to know all the work that goes into a project like a terminal emulator.
I love the app on my Mac, can't wait to go home and try it out
As someone who spends most of my time remoted in to other machines, it's very hard to give up the deep tmux integration on iTerm 2, but I do cast a wandering gaze at Ghostty now and then. I know some people think tmux is a dead-end so if an alternative ever really gains traction I could be convinced to switch.
https://github.com/frarees/typometer
Typometer
Typometer is a tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text editors.
Editor latency is the delay between an input event and a corresponding screen update — in particular, the delay between keystroke and character appearance. While there are many kinds of delays (caret movement, line editing, etc.), typing latency is a major predictor of editor usability.
Check the article typing with pleasure to learn more about editor latency and its effects on typing performance.
https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-2-0#breakin...
Are scrollback and scrollbars that hard to implement? Or do people just don't care that much about them that they are only added in 1.3?
I tried using various terminal emulators which don't support scrollback and scrollbars with tmux (which apparently most people do as a substitute). However for me that falls apart as soon as you SSH to a remote host and need to use tmux there as well. Maybe I'm just a console-noob...
I love the app on my Mac, can't wait to go home and try it out
It's a lot of fun following it, just to gleam best practices from.
https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-2-0#roadmap
I tried the app image once, and it looked promising.