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Alacritty

A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

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Alacritty is a terminal emulator that ships with sensible defaults while allowing extensive configuration. Rather than reimplementing functionality found in other applications, it integrates with them, providing a flexible feature set with high performance. It runs on BSD, Linux, macOS, and Windows, and is currently considered to be at a beta level of readiness.

Its features include Vi Mode for moving around and creating selections using vi bindings, search across the scrollback buffer, regex hints for marking text for mouse or keyboard interaction, and multi-window support that uses a single Alacritty process to improve resource usage. Installation options cover Linux/BSD build instructions, a macOS disk image, and Windows installer and portable executables.

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