From bfdc20a1c418660124f74e99425fa9e584fcb779 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jared Finder <jared@finder.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 21:00:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] New support for Ghostty terminal emulator

* lisp/faces.el (term-file-aliases): Alias xterm-ghostty to
ghostty.
* lisp/term/ghostty.el: New file.
---
 lisp/faces.el        |  3 ++-
 lisp/term/ghostty.el | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 lisp/term/ghostty.el

diff --git a/lisp/faces.el b/lisp/faces.el
index 94da4ba0290..5aaf6c7453b 100644
--- a/lisp/faces.el
+++ b/lisp/faces.el
@@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ the terminal-initialization file to be loaded."
     ("vt420" . "vt200")
     ("alacritty" . "xterm")
     ("foot" . "xterm")
-    ("contour" . "xterm"))
+    ("contour" . "xterm")
+    ("xterm-ghostty" . "ghostty"))
   "Alist of terminal type aliases.
 Entries are of the form (TYPE . ALIAS), where both elements are strings.
 This means to treat a terminal of type TYPE as if it were of type ALIAS."
diff --git a/lisp/term/ghostty.el b/lisp/term/ghostty.el
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5d710dd116a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lisp/term/ghostty.el
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+;;; ghostty.el --- terminal initialization for Ghostty  -*- lexical-binding:t -*-
+
+;; Copyright (C) 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; Support for Ghostty terminal.
+;; https://ghostty.org/
+
+(require 'term/xterm)
+
+(defun terminal-init-ghostty ()
+  "Terminal initialization function for Ghostty."
+  (tty-run-terminal-initialization (selected-frame) "xterm"))
+
+(provide 'term/ghostty)
+
+;;; ghostty.el ends here