Changelog
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kitty is a feature-rich, cross-platform, fast, GPU based terminal. To update kitty, follow the instructions. Recent major new features: Cheetah speed 🐆: kitty has grown up and become a cheetah. It ...
  • Cheetah speed with a redesigned render loop and a 2x faster escape code parser that uses SIMD CPU vector instruction to parse data in parallel (#7005)
  • A new benchmark kitten (kitten __benchmark__) to measure terminal throughput performance
  • Graphics protocol: Add a new delete mode for deleting images whose ids fall within a range. Useful for bulk deletion (#7080)
  • Keyboard protocol: Fix the Enter, Tab and Backspace keys generating spurious release events even when report all keys as escape codes is not set (#7136)
  • macOS: The command line args from macos-launch-services-cmdline are now prefixed to any args from open --args rather than overwriting them (#7135)
  • Allow specifying where the new tab is created for detach_window (#7134)
  • hints kitten: The option to set the text color for hints now allows arbitrary colors (#7150)
  • icat kitten: Add a command line argument to override terminal window size detection (#7165)
  • A new action toggle_tab to easily switch to and back from a tab with a single shortcut (#7203)
  • When clearing terminal add a new type to_cursor_scroll which can be used to clear to prompt while moving cleared lines into the scrollback
  • Fix a performance bottleneck when dealing with thousands of small images (#7080)
  • kitten @ ls: Return the timestamp at which the window was created (#7178)
  • hints kitten: Use default editor rather than hardcoding vim to open file at specific line (#7186)
  • Remote control: Fix --match argument not working for @ls, @send-key, @set-background-image (#7192)
  • Keyboard protocol: Do not deliver a fake key release events on OS window focus out for engaged modifiers (#7196)
  • Ignore startup_session when kitty is invoked with command line options specifying a command to run (#7198)
  • Box drawing: Specialize rendering for the Fira Code progress bar/spinner glyphs
  • iiGxC@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    How do you run the benchmarks? kitten __benchmark__ says “__benchmark__ is not a known subcommand for kitten”

    Edit: I see now that the changelog says that the benchmark kitten was added in this release