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Changelog
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kitty is a feature full, cross-platform, *fast*, OpenGL based terminal emulator.
version 0.4.2 [2017-10-23]
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- Fix a regression in 0.4.0 that broke custom key mappings
- Fix a regression in 0.4.0 that broke support for non-QWERTY keyboard layouts
- Avoid using threads to reap zombie child processes. Also prevent kitty from
hanging if the open program hangs when clicking on a URL.
version 0.4.0 [2017-10-22]
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- Support for drawing arbitrary raster graphics (images) in the terminal via a
new graphics protocol. kitty can draw images with full 32-bit color using both
ssh connections and files/shared memory (when available) for better
performance. The drawing primitives support alpha blending and z-index.
Images can be drawn both above and below text. See
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/blob/master/graphics-protocol.asciidoc
for details.
- Refactor kitty's internals to make it even faster and more efficient. The CPU
usage of kitty + X server while doing intensive tasks such as scrolling a
file continuously in less has been reduced by 50%. There are now two
configuration options ``repaint_delay`` and ``input_delay`` you can use to
fine tune kitty's performance vs CPU usage profile. The CPU usage of kitty +
X when scrolling in less is now significantly better than most (all?) other
terminals. See https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty#performance
- Hovering over URLs with the mouse now underlines them to indicate they
can be clicked. Hold down Ctrl+Shift while clicking to open the URL.
- Selection using the mouse is now more intelligent. It does not add
blank cells (i.e. cells that have no content) after the end of text in a
line to the selection.
- The block cursor in now fully opaque but renders the character under it in
the background color, for enhanced visibility.
- Allow combining multiple independent actions into a single shortcut
- Add a new shortcut to pass the current selection to an external program
- Allow creating shortcuts to open new windows running arbitrary commands. You
can also pass the current selection to the command as an arguments and the
contents of the screen + scrollback buffer as stdin to the command.