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# Extend with kittens

kitty has a framework for easily creating terminal programs that make use of its advanced features. These programs are called kittens. They are used both to add features to kitty itself and to create useful standalone programs. Some prominent kittens:

icat

  Display images in the terminal.

diff

  A fast, side-by-side diff for the terminal with syntax highlighting and images.

Unicode input

  Easily input arbitrary Unicode characters in kitty by name or hex code.

Themes

  Preview and quick switch between over three hundred color themes.

Fonts

  Preview, fine-tune and quick switch the fonts used by kitty.

Hints

  Select and open/paste/insert arbitrary text snippets such as URLs, filenames, words, lines, etc. from the terminal screen.

Command palette

  Browse, search and trigger all keyboard shortcuts and actions from a single searchable overlay.

Quick access terminal

  Get access to a quick access floating, semi-transparent kitty window with a single keypress.

Panel

  Draw the desktop wallpaper or docks and panels using arbitrary terminal programs.

Choose files

  Preview and select files at the speed of thought

Drag and drop from the shell

  Drag and drop files from/to GUI programs from your shell, even over SSH

Remote file

  Edit, open, or download remote files over SSH easily, by simply clicking on the filename.

Transfer files

  Transfer files and directories seamlessly and easily from remote machines over your existing SSH sessions with a simple command.

Hyperlinked grep

  Search your files using ripgrep and open the results directly in your favorite editor in the terminal, at the line containing the search result, simply by clicking on the result you want.

Broadcast

  Type in one kitty window and have it broadcast to all (or a subset) of other kitty windows.

SSH

  SSH with automatic shell integration, connection re-use for low latency and easy cloning of local shell and editor configuration to the remote host.

Clipboard

  Copy/paste to the clipboard from shell scripts, even over SSH.

You can also Learn to create your own kittens.