Kitty (terminal emulator)

kitty is a free and open-source GPU-accelerated terminal emulator for Linux, macOS, and some BSD distributions. It is written in a mix of C, Python and Go programming languages. kitty shares its name with another program — KiTTY — a fork of PuTTY for Microsoft Windows.

Features

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

• Display images with ImageMagick installed
• Interactive Unicode characters input by name, code, recently used
• 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
• OpenGL rendering

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