Change Telescope's Border Color In Ghostty

January 2025

I've been playing around with Ghostty¹. Most things have been working out of the box. One thing that hasn't been is the borders around floating Telescope² windows that I use for my grimoire³.

They Just Worked™ in iTerm2⁴. Took a bit of digging to figure out that adding this to my ~/.config/nvim/init.lua file was required to fix them in Ghostty so they'd show up:

vim.cmd.highlight({ "TelescopeBorder", "guibg=Black guifg=White"})

With that in place. Thing work as expected.

You can learn more about what colors are available with:

:help ctermbg

and

:help guibg

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Footnotes

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Ghostty Terminal

"a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration"

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Telescope Neovim Plugin

The search plugin that I built my grimoire interface on top of

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My Grimoire

My book of magic (aka notes app)

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iTerm2

The venerable macOS terminal that I've been using for years