# Aminal - A Modern Terminal Emulator

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Aminal is a modern terminal emulator implemented in Golang and utilising OpenGL. Whilst the basic functionality is in place, we're not yet at the stage to make a public release. Feel free to build and play with it though!

![Example screenshot](demo.gif)

The project is experimental at the moment, so you probably won't want to rely on Aminal as your main terminal for a while.

Ensure you have your latest graphics card drivers installed before use.

## Contextual Hints

![Example hint](hint.png)

## Sixel Support

![Example sixel](sixel.png)


## Aims

- Unicode support
- OpenGL rendering
- Full customisation options
- True colour support
- Support for common ANSI escape sequences a la xterm
- Scrollback buffer
- Clipboard access
- Clickable URLs
- Resize logic that wraps/unwraps lines _correctly_
- Bullshit graphical effects
- Multi platform support
- Sixel support

## What isn't supported?

- Suspend/Continue (\^S, \^Q). This is archaic bullshit that annoys more people than it helps. Basically:

<p align="center">
<img alt="Overheating" src="https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/workflow.png"/>
</p>

## Platform Support

| Platform | Supported |
| -------- | --------- |
| Linux    | ✔         |
| MacOSX   | ⏳        |
| Windows  | ⏳        |

## Build Dependencies

- [Go 1.11+](https://golang.org/dl/)
- On macOS, you need Xcode or Command Line Tools for Xcode (`xcode-select --install`) for required headers and libraries.
- On Ubuntu/Debian-like Linux distributions, you need `libgl1-mesa-dev xorg-dev`.
- On CentOS/Fedora-like Linux distributions, you need `libX11-devel libXcursor-devel libXrandr-devel libXinerama-devel mesa-libGL-devel libXi-devel`.

## Keyboard Shortcuts

| Operation             | Key(s)               |
| --------------------- | -------------------- |
| Select text           | click + drag         |
| Select word           | double click         |
| Select line           | triple click         |
| Copy                  | ctrl + shift + c     |
| Paste                 | ctrl + shift + v     |
| Google selected text  | ctrl + shift + g     |
| Report bug in aminal  | ctrl + shift + r     |
| Explain text          | ctrl + shift + click |
| Toggle slomo          | ctrl + shift + ;     |
 
## Configuration

Aminal looks for a config file in `~/.aminal.toml`, and will write one there the first time it runs, if it doesn't already exist.

You can ignore the config and use defaults by specifying `--ignore-config` as a CLI flag.

### Config Options/CLI Flags

| CLI Flag         | Config Section | Config Name    | Type    | Default | Description                                                                                                                   |
| ---------------- | -------------- | -------------- | ------- | ------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| --debug          | _root_         | debug          | boolean | false   | Enable debug mode, with debug logging and debug info terminal overlay.                                                        |
| --slomo          | _root_         | slomo          | boolean | false   | Enable slomo mode, delay the handling of each incoming byte (or escape sequence) from the pty by 100ms. Useful for debugging. |
| --shell [shell]  | _root_         | shell          | string  | User's shell | Use the specified shell program instead of the user's usual one.                                                         |
