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Terminal emulator library for the BEAM — libghostty-vt NIFs with OTP integration.

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CHANGELOG.md 

# Changelog



## 0.1.0 (2026-03-29)



Initial release.



### Terminal



- `Ghostty.Terminal` GenServer with full lifecycle management

- `write/2` — feed VT-encoded data (iodata)

- `snapshot/2` — read screen as `:plain`, `:html`, or `:vt`

- `resize/3` — resize with automatic text reflow

- `reset/1` — full terminal reset (RIS)

- `scroll/2` — viewport scrollback

- `cursor/1` — current cursor position

- `size/1` — current dimensions

- Supervision support via `child_spec/1`

- Named terminals for direct access



### NIF



- Zigler-based NIFs linking libghostty-vt via C API

- NIF resource with destructor (no leaks on GC or crash)

- All operations on dirty CPU scheduler

- BEAM allocator for format buffers



### Build



- `Mix.Tasks.Compile.GhosttyVt` — builds libghostty-vt from source

- Requires Zig 0.15+ and Ghostty source tree