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![]() A screenshot of Alacritty running
Vim | |
Original author(s) | Joe Wilm [1] |
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Developer(s) | Kirill Chibisov, Christian Dürr [2] |
Stable release | 0.13.2
[3]
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Repository | |
Written in | Rust |
Operating system | macOS, Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD |
Platform | x86-64, IA-32 |
License | Apache Software License 2.0 |
Website |
alacritty |
Alacritty is a free and open-source GPU-accelerated terminal emulator focused on performance and simplicity. Consequently, it does not support tabs or splits and is configured by editing a text file. It is written in Rust and uses OpenGL (for performance). [4] [5] [6] A similar terminal emulator that uses OpenGL is kitty.
Joe Wilm announced Alacritty in his blog on 6 January 2017. He describes it as "the result of frustration with existing terminal emulators. Using vim inside tmux in many terminals was a particularly bad experience. None of them were ever quite fast enough". He found urxvt and st difficult to configure and criticized their "inability to run on non- X11 platforms". [1]
With the release of version 0.2.0 in September 2018 Alacritty gained support for scrollback. [7]
In version 0.3.0, released in April 2019, Alacritty entered beta stage and support for Windows, text reflow, and clicking on URLs was added. [8]
In version 0.5.0, released in July 2020, a mode with vi keybindings for searching and copying text was added. [9]
In version 0.6.0, released in November 2020, a new Ctrl+C binding to cancel search and leave vi mode was added. [10]
Alacritty supports true color in addition to the standard 16 ANSI colors. [11]
Alacritty explicitly does not support tabs or splits because similar functionality can be achieved with a terminal multiplexer or window manager. [12] [13]
Alacritty is configured by editing a template file in TOML format.[ citation needed]
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![]() | |
![]() A screenshot of Alacritty running
Vim | |
Original author(s) | Joe Wilm [1] |
---|---|
Developer(s) | Kirill Chibisov, Christian Dürr [2] |
Stable release | 0.13.2
[3]
![]() |
Repository | |
Written in | Rust |
Operating system | macOS, Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD |
Platform | x86-64, IA-32 |
License | Apache Software License 2.0 |
Website |
alacritty |
Alacritty is a free and open-source GPU-accelerated terminal emulator focused on performance and simplicity. Consequently, it does not support tabs or splits and is configured by editing a text file. It is written in Rust and uses OpenGL (for performance). [4] [5] [6] A similar terminal emulator that uses OpenGL is kitty.
Joe Wilm announced Alacritty in his blog on 6 January 2017. He describes it as "the result of frustration with existing terminal emulators. Using vim inside tmux in many terminals was a particularly bad experience. None of them were ever quite fast enough". He found urxvt and st difficult to configure and criticized their "inability to run on non- X11 platforms". [1]
With the release of version 0.2.0 in September 2018 Alacritty gained support for scrollback. [7]
In version 0.3.0, released in April 2019, Alacritty entered beta stage and support for Windows, text reflow, and clicking on URLs was added. [8]
In version 0.5.0, released in July 2020, a mode with vi keybindings for searching and copying text was added. [9]
In version 0.6.0, released in November 2020, a new Ctrl+C binding to cancel search and leave vi mode was added. [10]
Alacritty supports true color in addition to the standard 16 ANSI colors. [11]
Alacritty explicitly does not support tabs or splits because similar functionality can be achieved with a terminal multiplexer or window manager. [12] [13]
Alacritty is configured by editing a template file in TOML format.[ citation needed]
{{
cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link)