/upterm

A terminal emulator for the 21st century.

Primary LanguageTypeScriptMIT LicenseMIT

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What Is It?

Upterm (formerly Black Screen) is an IDE in the world of terminals. Strictly speaking, it's both a terminal emulator and an interactive shell based on Electron. Also, unlike most of the emulators you can meet nowadays it uses HTML and CSS for its UI (exactly as Atom does), which means we can stop misusing unicode characters and make a better looking terminal with appropriate tools.

Autocompletion

Upterm shows the autocompletion box as you type and tries to be smart about what to suggest. Often you can find useful additional information on the right side of the autocompletion, e.g. expanded alias value, command descriptions, value of the previous directory (cd -), etc.

Compatibility

We aim to be compatible at least with VT100. All the programs (emacs, ssh, vim) should work as expected.

Install

MacOS
brew cask install upterm

Beware that the version in Homebrew might be outdated. Visit the releases page to download the latest version.

Linux (Arch Linux)
yaourt -S upterm

As with macOS's brew install, the AUR may also be outdated. To install the latest version, refer to the install guide for Linux (Others).

Linux (Others)
  • Download and open the AppImage file from the releases page.
Windows

Windows is not officially supported at the moment. The Windows Support Issue explains potential experimental support.

Technologies

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Development Setup

git clone https://github.com/railsware/upterm.git && cd upterm
npm start

Instructions are available for debugging the application in Visual Studio Code.

To create a standalone application, execute npm run pack in the project directory.

Contributing

See Contributing Guide.

License

The MIT License.