A terminal emulator we are now using at Nisdos, open-sourced for community needs. It aims at high performance, while having all modern features. Built on pure Rust & SDL3.
- flexible layout: movable tabs, resizable panes
- extensive state, restored on startup
- cross-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows)
- configurable hotkeys and mouse tricks
- scrollable output history
- primary buffer support on Linux
- smart Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V (works when it doesn't interfere with terminal apps)
- sequential hotkeys (built-in example: Alt-G-P — go to prompt)
- emojis, including modifiers and combined emojis
- multiterminal typing (send input to several terminals simultaneously)
- terminal keeps own input and output history in state
- convenient command history search
- AI-assistant to help working with OS (not for coding)
- error detection
- clickable URLs (hold Ctrl and hover to see if it is)
- further expand settings
- voice input
- UI themes
- plugins system
- ligatures support
- Kitty protocol support
State includes layout structure, relative pane sizes, current working directory, tab names, a few of last commands of each terminal and some amount of previous output of each terminal. State is saved and loaded automatically. State files are human-readable to make it transparent what we actually store in them.
If a terminal is in a normal, not grouped, mode you can press Ctrl+R (configurable hotkey) and get a visual history search dialog with combined shell & private history in one list. Entries are deduplicated and filtered on the fly. The terminal automatically detects it if you run in it a program that uses Ctrl+R (e.g. 'nano') and disables the search dialog, as it makes no sense there.
Click on CPU load indicator on the top right corner to open settings in your default text editor. There are only a few settings for now, more will come soon.
Holding Ctrl key and clicking left mouse button on a terminal pane adds it to the list of terminals to send input to. Ctrl-clicking on a selected terminal removes it from the list. When you have several active terminals, everything you type will be sent to all of them simultaneously.
- Linux — no known bugs
- macOS — bugs: mouse clicking, zsh environment
- Windows — bugs: some fonts, multiple screen support
The builds included in "releases" directory may be slightly outdated. If you want to get the most recent version, please build it from source. I'll add details on that later.