About Alacritty
Alacritty is a terminal emulator that focuses on speed by drawing text on the GPU. It ships with sensible defaults and can be tuned in detail through its configuration file.
What it does
Alacritty runs your shell inside a window and renders output with OpenGL. It leaves features such as multiplexing to other applications instead of rebuilding them, which keeps the program focused and fast. Its own features include Vi-style navigation, scrollback search and clickable hints for text.
Key features
- Vi mode for moving and selecting text
- Search through the scrollback buffer
- Regex hints to open or act on matched text
- One process that runs multiple windows
- Extensive configuration through a text file
Who it's for
Developers and system administrators who spend much of their day in a terminal and want a fast window. It suits people who prefer to configure their tools in a text file rather than a settings dialog.
Pricing and good to know
The project is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so it is free to use. Installers exist for macOS, Windows and Linux, with build steps for other systems. The project describes itself as beta-level software, with a few missing features and bugs still open, although many people use it as a daily terminal.
Highlights
- Vi mode for moving and selecting text
- Search through the scrollback buffer
- Regex hints to open or act on matched text
- One process that runs multiple windows
- Extensive configuration through a text file
