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Alacritty for Mac

Terminal emulator.

Free
In English
Version 0.14.0
3.7
Based on 3 user rates

Alacritty overview

Alacritty is a modern terminal emulator that comes with sensible defaults, but allows for extensive configuration. By integrating with other applications, rather than reimplementing their functionality, it manages to provide a flexible set of features with high performance.

Features
  • Vi Mode
  • Motion
  • Selection
  • Search
  • Vi Search
  • Normal Search
  • Hints
  • Selection expansion
  • Opening URLs with the mouse
  • Multi-Window

What’s new in version 0.14.0

Packaging
  • Minimum Rust version has been bumped to 1.74.0
Added
  • Support relative path imports from config files
  • alacritty migrate support for TOML configuration changes
  • Headless mode using alacritty --daemon
Changed
  • Pressing Alt with unicode input will now add ESC like for ASCII input
  • Decorations use opaque style and system window background on macOS
  • No longer source ~/.zshenv on macOS
  • Moved config options import, working_directory, live_config_reload, and ipc_socket
  • to the new general section
  • Moved config option shell to terminal.shell
  • ctrl+shift+u binding to open links to ctrl+shift+o to avoid collisions with IMEs
  • Use Beam cursor for single char cursor inside the IME preview
Fixed
  • Crash when trying to create a new tab without decorations enabled
  • New window being treated as focused when it's not on Wayland
  • IME preview blending into text below it
  • Dynamic title disabled for new windows when initial one has title as CLI option
  • While terminal in mouse mode, mouse bindings that used the shift modifier and
  • had multiple actions only performed the first action
  • Leaking FDs when closing windows on Unix systems
  • Config emitting errors for nonexistent import paths
  • Kitty keyboard protocol reporting shifted key codes
  • Broken search with words broken across line boundary on the first character
  • Config import changes not being live reloaded
  • Cursor color requests with default cursor colors
  • Fullwidth semantic escape characters
  • Windows app icon now displays properly in old alt+tab on Windows
  • Alacritty not being properly activated with startup notify
  • Invalid URL highlights after terminal scrolling
  • Hollow block cursor not spanning multiple chars being edited inside the IME preview
  • Vi inline search only working for direct key input without modifiers

Alacritty for Mac

Free
In English
Version 0.14.0
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3.7

(1 Reviews of Alacritty)

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Tachy0n
Tachy0n
Oct 11 2023
0.12.3
1.0
Oct 11 2023
1.0
Version: 0.12.3
This is a huge step backwards for terminal emulators. There is only one useless menu, and you can’t seem to do much. So I went to the manual (on Github — ugh) and of course got more lost there. I tried some keystrokes but none of them seemed to do anything. Someone make me a demo video to show me why this is any good.
makareim
makareim
Dec 28 2023
0.13.0
5.0
Dec 28 2023
5.0
Version: 0.13.0
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Dec 28 2023
0.13.0
5.0
Dec 28 2023
5.0
Version: 0.13.0
Tachy0n
Tachy0n
Oct 11 2023
0.12.3
1.0
Oct 11 2023
1.0
Version: 0.12.3