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# kitty
If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for YOU! The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator. Fast Uses GPU and SIMD vector CPU instructions for best in class performance, Uses threaded ...

If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for YOU!

The fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator.

Fast

- Uses GPU and SIMD vector CPU instructions for best in class performance

- Uses threaded rendering for absolutely minimal latency

- Performance tradeoffs can be tuned

Capable

- Graphics, with images and animations

- Ligatures, emoji with `per glyph font substitution` and variable fonts and font features

- Hyperlinks, with configurable actions

Scriptable

- Control from scripts or the shell

- Extend with kittens using the Python language

- Use startup sessions to specify working environments

Composable

- Programmable tabs, splits and multiple layouts to manage windows

- Browse the entire history or the `output from the last command` comfortably in pagers and editors

- Edit or download remote files in an existing SSH session

Cross-platform

- Linux

- macOS

- Various BSDs

Innovative

Pioneered various extensions to move the entire terminal ecosystem forward

- Terminal graphics protocol

- Comprehensive keyboard handling in terminals

- Lots more in Terminal protocol extensions

To get started see Quickstart.