Alacritty
| Alacritty | |
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 A screenshot of Alacritty running Vim | |
| Original author | Joe Wilm[1] |
| Developers | Kirill Chibisov, Christian Dürr[2] |
| Stable release | |
| Written in | Rust |
| Operating system | macOS, Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD |
| Platform | x86-64, IA-32 |
| License | Apache Software License 2.0, MIT License |
| Website | alacritty |
| Repository | |
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.[4][5][6]
History
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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]
Features
[edit]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]
Configuration
[edit]Alacritty is configured by editing a template file in TOML format.[14]
See also
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References
[edit]- 1 2 Wilm, Joe (2017-01-06). "Announcing Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator". jwilm.io. Archived from the original on 2023-05-25. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
- ↑ "Alacritty Open Source Project on Open Hub: Contributions Listing Page". Archived from the original on 2022-03-09. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
- ↑ "Release 0.17.0". 6 April 2026. Retrieved 7 April 2026.
- ↑ Senthil Kumar Palani (2019-10-29). "Alacritty – A Lightweight And Blazingly Fast Terminal Emulator". OSTechNix. Archived from the original on 2023-06-03. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
- ↑ angeloma17 (2020-03-18). "Alacritty the fastest terminal emulator for Linux". OSRadar. Archived from the original on 2023-01-28. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Morelo, David. "Top 7 Best Linux Terminals – Linux Hint". Archived from the original on 2023-10-05. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
- ↑ Wilm, Joe (2018-09-17). "Alacritty now supports scrollback". jwilm.io. Archived from the original on 2023-08-09. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
- ↑ Dürr, Christian (2019-04-07). "Alacritty Version 0.3.0 Release". Archived from the original on 2020-07-28. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
- ↑ Dürr, Christian (2020-07-31). "Alacritty Version 0.5.0 Release". christianduerr.com. Archived from the original on 2020-08-01. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
- ↑ "Release Alacritty Version 0.6.0". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2022-08-20. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
- ↑ Beaupré, Antoine (2018-03-30). "A look at terminal emulators, part 1". LWN.net. Archived from the original on 2023-06-23. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
- ↑ "GitHub - alacritty/Alacritty at v0.4.3". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2024-05-22. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
- ↑ Kili, Aaron (2020-06-05). "Alacritty – A Fastest Terminal Emulator for Linux". TecMint. Archived from the original on 2023-06-03. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
- ↑ "Alacritty". alacritty.org. Archived from the original on 2024-10-02. Retrieved 2024-10-03.