Zig treats paths, arguments and environment values as byte slices; the
port converted them lossily in many places. Now (final-Z1.md):
- argv, env (incl. present non-UTF-8 values), HOME, PATH lookup,
passwd, resources dir, TMPDIR, cgroup, config path canonicalization,
+validate-config, +list-themes and Zig-string escapes (\xFF) keep raw
bytes. String-based config values carry bytes via ghostty_os::osbytes,
a bijective escape (noncharacter U+FDD0 + byte) that leaves all valid
UTF-8 - including Nerd Font private-use icons - unchanged.
- os/file rlimit fallbacks exist on all targets.
- i18n locale canonicalization is an exact port of libintl's tables
(e.g. pa-Guru -> pa_IN).
- New ghostty-build-info crate is the single source of version, channel,
commit and build mode for all consumers.
Test Plan:
- cargo test -p ghostty-os -p ghostty-config -p ghostty-cli
(incl. randomized osbytes round-trip property tests)
Ports apprt/embedded.zig, main_c.zig and config/CApi.zig + c_get.zig as
crates/ghostty-lib (cdylib/staticlib/rlib `libghostty`), exporting every
function of the unchanged include/ghostty.h - the ABI Ghostty's Swift
macOS/iOS app links against. The embedded runtime implements the
runtime traits over the host's C callbacks, so the real core drives it.
- ghostty-core selects the renderer per target: Metal on Apple (surface
NSView/UIView via RtSurface::platform_view), OpenGL elsewhere.
- ghostty_config_get follows Zig's c_get rules via a CValue type (143
supported keys, checked against the Zig field types).
- The inspector C API is complete; its Metal backend replaces ImGui's
Metal renderer and has not run.
Verification: generated C ABI probe (sizeof/alignof/offsetof of every
struct/union, 755 enum values, every function linked, nm exports, headers
byte-identical to upstream); a C host on Linux covering init, CLI
actions, config, app, keys, focus and color scheme; an opt-in
test-platform feature creating real surfaces on Linux with headless EGL
and a pty (13 tests). Apple targets are clippy-clean but not run; the
Swift app has not been built against it.
Test Plan:
- cargo test -p ghostty-lib (and --features test-platform)
- cargo clippy --target aarch64-apple-darwin -p ghostty-lib (cross env
in docs/rewrite/notes/macos-M1.md)
rustfmt.toml sets group_imports, imports_granularity and imports_layout,
which are nightly-only; agents formatted with stable rustfmt, which
ignored them. This is a formatting-only pass with `cargo +nightly fmt`.
Test Plan:
- cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
- cargo test --workspace
Addresses the partial ports listed in
docs/rewrite/notes/review-completeness-codex.md (details in
docs/rewrite/notes/gaps-X2.md):
- Flatpak: the exit watcher no longer consumes the host command; a
shared FlatpakSignalHandle lets closing a surface still SIGHUP the
host process group.
- Child environment is byte-preserving end to end (ghostty_os::EnvMap
of OsStrings) and Snap paths are filtered like filterSnapPaths.
- argv handling no longer panics on non-UTF-8 arguments.
- URI percent-decoding keeps raw bytes; OSC 7 pwd is passed through
without lossy conversion.
- Keybinding comparison/hashing uses full Unicode case folding from a
table generated from CaseFolding.txt (Unicode 17.0.0).
- Link regexes set Oniguruma's whole-search retry limit through the new
minimal ghostty-onig crate (one SAFETY-commented FFI call).
- OSC 9 NUL-capacity check ordering matches Zig.
- Wayland registry binds/clears globals advertised after startup.
- Custom shaders may pass sampler2D to helper functions (naga adapter).
- +list-themes preview renders OSC 8 links, styled underlines and
follows color-scheme reports.
Also includes the inspector's integration edits in shared files
(renderer state hook, termio VT recording, core/apprt-gtk wiring), X1's
config/input/cli additions for completion generation, and a fix for a
race in the termio backpressure test (it wrote before `stty raw`
applied, so the cooked line discipline dropped bytes past MAX_CANON).
Test Plan:
- cargo test --workspace
- cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
Ports ZIG/src/config (minus C/WASM APIs) and cli/{args,CommaSplitter,
diagnostics}.zig into ghostty-config:
- all 202 options with exact names, types, defaults and verbatim docs,
declared through one config_struct! macro; Zig's comptime reflection is
replaced by the ConfigField/CliTarget traits
- loading: default XDG files, -e, config-file includes (optional '?',
cycle detection), themes incl. light:/dark: pairs, conditional config,
replay, finalize() derived defaults, clone/changed diffing for reload
- Linux/GTK default keybinds built on ghostty_input::binding::Set
- formatter producing +show-config output
Verified against the installed Ghostty 1.3.1: `+show-config --default`
and `--default --docs` match byte for byte (except gtk-opengl-debug,
which differs between debug/release builds), as do two complex loaded
configs.
Open items (docs/rewrite/notes/ghostty-config.md): url regex needs an
Oniguruma-compatible engine (onig) in the renderer; some font/terminal
types are local copies awaiting integration; KeyRemapSet equality is
order sensitive unlike Zig.
Test Plan:
- cargo test -p ghostty-config (255 tests)
- compare `ghostty +show-config --default --docs` with our formatter
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