

You cannot fork the current project because it is not open source anymore. A fork of the last available GPL release would be possible, though.


You cannot fork the current project because it is not open source anymore. A fork of the last available GPL release would be possible, though.


Just because it’s open source
It’s not open source. The maintainer relicensed the project from GPL to the current source-available license last year.
The AUR package uses the last GPL release before the change and thus does the current license does not apply.
Most terminal emulators are in fact slow and they can be a huge bottleneck if you run complex TUIs or workloads that print a lot of output.
Ever written a program that was extremely slow only for it to run instantly after removing your debug print statements? That’s because your terminal is slow.
Fast terminal emulators already exist, but they notably refused to add tabs/splits and overall tended to be quite janky. Ghostty merging these features may not be the most groundbreaking innovation, but a high quality piece of software that can drop-in replace something you use daily with some cool improvements is something to be excited about to me. :-)
It’s incredibly fast, has the features you would want like tabs/splits, maintains comprehensive compatibility, and is written cleanly in Zig. What’s not to like?
As the other commenters have mentioned, this is part of the shell configuration and outside the scope of the terminal emulator.
You can configure this yourself by adding shopt -s histverify to your bashrc.
Adding on to what the other commenter mentioned, that is called a breaking change and would generally be avoided at all costs by libssl. See, e.g., the decades-long python3 transition.