kitty (terminal emulator)

kitty is a free and open-source GPU-accelerated[2][3] terminal emulator focused on performance and features. kitty is written in a mix of C and Python programming languages, and it is one of few terminal emulators with GPU support along with Alacritty. Some says that kitty is faster than iTerm2 on macOS.[4] kitty shares its name with another program — KiTTY — a fork of PuTTY for Windows.[5][6]

For other uses, see Kitty (disambiguation).
kitty
Original author(s)Kovid Goyal
Initial release2017
Stable release
0.21.1[1]  / 14 June 2021 (14 June 2021)
Repository
Written inC, Python
Operating systemLinux, macOS
LicenseGNU General Public License, version 3.0
Websitesw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ 

Features
  • Display images (when ImageMagick installed)[7][8]
  • Interactive Unicode characters input (ctrl+shift+u), by name, code, recently used[9]
  • Supports true color, text formatting features
  • Tiling of multiple windows and tabs
  • Single config file
  • Hyperlink clicks
  • Mouse support (for example in Vim)
  • Multiple copy/paste buffers like in Vim[10]

References
  1. "Release 0.21.1". 14 June 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  2. "kitty - hardware-accelerated terminal emulator". LinuxLinks. 2019-10-11. Retrieved 2021-03-09. It offers GPU-acceleration combined with a wide feature set. It’s targeted at power keyboard users. It’s billed as a modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL based terminal emulator
  3. Kumar, Nitesh. "Best Terminal Emulators for Linux – Linux Hint". Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  4. "Configuring Kitty". DEV Community. Retrieved 2021-03-09. Ever since I started doing more work in the terminal, it became painfully clear to me that the standard terminal.app on Mac and even iTerm2 (although an amazing product!) were not cutting it anymore for me in terms of speed
  5. "KiTTY". www.9bis.net. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  6. "Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  7. "icat - Display images in the terminal — kitty 0.19.3 documentation". sw.kovidgoyal.net. Retrieved 2021-03-09. alias icat="kitty +kitten icat"
  8. "Kitty terminal emulator". aliquote.org. 2020-08-16. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  9. "Unicode input — kitty 0.19.3 documentation". sw.kovidgoyal.net. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  10. Gautam, Pratik (2020-12-22). "Kitty - A Powerful GPU Based Terminal Emulator". LinOxide. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
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