/extraterm

The terminal emulator with a whole lot extra.

Primary LanguageC++MIT LicenseMIT

Extraterm

The terminal emulator with a lot extra...

  • Reuse command output as new command input
  • Manipulate and copy text without leaving the keyboard
  • Slice and dice command output like a text editor
  • Display images directly
  • See the Visual Tour for more

Directly edit and execute command output

See the Visual Tour and Screenshots

Try it out yourself (Linux, Windows and OS X supported)

About

Extraterm is an open source project to build a modern terminal emulator with radical new features to make it more than just a dumb viewer for text output. The aim is to drag the terminal emulator kicking and screaming out of the 80s and into modern computing. More background information is in the Why document.

The primary developer is Simon Edwards.

📢 🐦 Follow development on Twitter @ ExtratermDev

Further Information

Status

⚠️ Extraterm is in development and roughly 'beta' in quality. It is generally stable, but don't be too surprised if you encounter a few bugs. Use at your own risk. ⚠️

With that out of the way, the primary author does use it as their main terminal emulator on a daily basis. The basics are in place and it will run most common terminal applications such as vi, emacs and joe without problems and even more demanding applications such as midnight commander.

Current features:

  • Supports Linux, Mac OS X and Cygwin on Windows
  • xterm compatible
  • Multiple tabs/terminals
  • Keyboard based selection
  • (Basic) vertical split
  • Show images in the terminal
  • Shell integration; can isolate and 'frame' command output
  • Previous command output can be used as input for new commands
  • Command output is editable in place
  • MIT license
  • ...much more to come

:octocat: Github: https://github.com/sedwards2009/extraterm