The swiss army chainsaw of terminal emulators
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The swiss army chainsaw of terminal emulators
Main website: extraterm.org
About
Extraterm is an open source project to build a terminal emulator and expand it with new features to support modern workflows and do more than just act like a glorified teletype.
See the Features and Screenshots
The primary developer is Simon Edwards. Extraterm logos were designed and provided by Gabriel Harel.
Features
- Supports Linux and macOS, and on Windows WSL, CMD, and PowerShell
- Built in SSH client
- Images in terminal
- Mini-map
- 24 bit color
- Color emoji on all platforms
- Font ligatures
- Keyboard friendly "Command Palette"
- Output colorizing
- Multiple windows and tiling
- Configurable key bindings
- Easily insert Emoji
- Search
- Unicode support
- Text zoom
- Global shortcuts
- Shell integration; can isolate and 'frame' command output. (bash, zsh and fish supported)
- Easy uploads and downloads using the shell integration
- Previous command output can be used as input for new commands
- Supports iTerm2 themes
- MIT license
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Download
- Modern Qt based version (version 0.60.0 and later)
- Classic Electron based version (versions before 0.60.0). It is pretty old.
Nightly builds of the master branch can be downloaded here.
Further Information
- :loudspeaker: Follow development on Bluesky extratermdev.bsky.social
- User Guide
- Downloads and Releases (Linux, Windows and OS X supported)
- Extending Extraterm with Extensions
- FAQ
- Development and Contributing
- Current Development Roadmap
- :octocat: Github: https://github.com/sedwards2009/extraterm
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