Alacritty
Terminal emulator
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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]
| 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 |
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History
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
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]
