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2.2 KiB
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kitty is designed for power keyboard users. To that end all its controls work
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with the keyboard (although it fully supports mouse interactions as well). Its
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configuration is a simple, human editable, single file for easy reproducibility
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(I like to store configuration in source control).
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The code in kitty is designed to be simple, modular and hackable. It is written
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in a mix of C (for performance sensitive parts) and Python (for easy hackability
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of the UI). It does not depend on any large and complex UI toolkit, using only
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OpenGL for rendering everything.
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Finally, kitty is designed from the ground up to support all modern terminal
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features, such as unicode, true color, bold/italic fonts, text formatting, etc.
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It even extends existing text formatting escape codes, to add support for
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features not available elsewhere, such as colored and styled (curly) underlines.
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One of the design goals of kitty is to be easily extensible so that new features
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can be added in the future with relatively little effort.
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* Offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load and buttery smooth
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scrolling. Uses threaded rendering to minimize input latency.
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* Supports all modern terminal features: graphics (images), unicode, true-color,
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OpenType ligatures, mouse protocol, focus tracking, bracketed paste and several
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new terminal protocol extensions.
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* Supports tiling multiple terminal windows side by side in different layouts
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without needing to use an extra program like tmux.
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* Can be controlled from scripts or the shell prompt, even over SSH.
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* Has a framework for Kittens, small terminal programs that can be used to
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extend kitty's functionality. For example, they are used for Unicode input,
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Hints and Side-by-side diff.
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* Supports startup sessions which allow you to specify the window/tab layout,
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working directories and programs to run on startup.
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* Cross-platform: kitty works on Linux and macOS, but because it uses only
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OpenGL for rendering, it should be trivial to port to other Unix-like platforms.
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* Allows you to open the scrollback buffer in a separate window using arbitrary
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programs of your choice. This is useful for browsing the history comfortably in
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a pager or editor.
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* Has multiple copy/paste buffers, like vim.
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