kitty is a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator.
Highlights:
Offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load and buttery smooth scrolling. Uses threaded rendering to minimize input latency
Supports all modern terminal features: graphics (images), unicode, true-color, OpenType ligatures, mouse protocol, focus tracking, bracketed paste and several new terminal protocol extensions
Supports tiling multiple terminal windows side by side in different layouts without needing to use an extra program like tmux
Can be controlled from scripts or the shell prompt, even over SSH
Has a framework for Kittens, small terminal programs that can be used to extend kitty's functionality. For example, they are used for Unicode input, Hints and Side-by-side diff
Supports startup sessions which allow you to specify the window/tab layout, working directories and programs to run on startup
Cross-platform: kitty works on Linux and macOS, but because it uses only OpenGL for rendering, it should be trivial to port to other Unix-like platforms
Allows you to open the scrollback buffer in a separate window using arbitrary programs of your choice. This is useful for browsing the history comfortably in a pager or editor
Has multiple copy/paste buffers, like vim
What’s new in version 0.39.0
diff kitten: Automatically use dark/light color scheme based on the color scheme of the parent terminal. Can be controlled via the new kitten-diff.color_scheme option. Note that this is a default behavior change (#8170)
Allow dynamically generating configuration by running an arbitrary program using the new geninclude directive in kitty.conf
When a program running in kitty reports progress of a task display it as a percentage in the tab title. Controlled by the tab_title_template option
When mapping a custom kitten allow using shell escaping for the kitten path (#8178)
Fix border colors not being changed by auto light/dark themes at startup (#8180)
ssh kitten: Fix kitten not being on PATH when SSHing into Debian systems (#7160)
diff kitten: Abort when run inside a terminal that does not support the kitty keyboard protocol (#8185)
query kitten: Add support for reporting name of the OS the terminal emulator is running on (#8201)
macOS: Allow using the Passwords app to autofill passwords via the Edit->Autofill menu mimicking other macOS applications (#8195)
macOS: Add menu items to the Edit menu to clear the screen and scrollback
Fix the clear_terminal scrollback action also clearing screen, not just the scrollback
When reloading configuration fix auto color themes not being re-applied (#8203)
The developer is Kovid Goyal, developer of the remarkable Calibre application. -> https://kovidgoyal.net/ <- He's a hero of mine! (Even if he does *gag* like Ayn Rand and can't cook). If Kovid is 'codear' he's forgiven. Have a read through his website. He's a left-right brainer out to freely help the computer community and that's all right with me. I'm happy to support his work and try out 'kitty'.
the user codear has a visit count of 1, so this is a typical developer self comment.
can't say if its good, but how the settings are handled seems complicated.
excellent - cross platform, blazing fast terminal emulator with unique features, like unicode search, configuration terminal, gpu accelerated rendering, ligatures etc. if you frequently use terminal emulator and work on different operating systems - perfect choice.