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Kitty (terminal emulator)

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Kitty (terminal emulator)
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kitty is a free and open-source GPU-accelerated[2][3] terminal emulator for Linux, macOS,[4] and some BSD distributions.[5] Focused on performance and features, kitty is written in a mix of C and Python programming languages. It provides GPU support. kitty shares its name with another program — KiTTY — a fork of PuTTY for Microsoft Windows.[6]

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Features

Kitty supports supplemental programs called kittens that add features to kitty.[7] Other features include:

  • Display images with ImageMagick installed[8][7]
  • Interactive Unicode characters input by name, code, recently used[9]
  • Supports true color, text formatting features
  • Tiling of multiple windows and tabs[10]
  • Single config file
  • Hyperlink clicks
  • Mouse support (for example in Vim)
  • Multiple copy/paste buffers like in Vim[11]
  • OpenGL rendering[4]
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