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[**Tabby**](https://tabby.sh) (formerly **Terminus**) is a highly configurable terminal emulator, SSH and serial client for Windows, macOS and Linux

* Integrated SSH and Telnet client and connection manager
* Integrated serial terminal
* Theming and color schemes
* Fully configurable shortcuts and multi-chord shortcuts
* Split panes
* Remembers your tabs
* PowerShell (and PS Core), WSL, Git-Bash, Cygwin, MSYS2, Cmder and CMD support
* Direct file transfer from/to SSH sessions via Zmodem
* Full Unicode support including double-width characters
* Doesn't choke on fast-flowing outputs
* Proper shell experience on Windows including tab completion (via Clink)
* Integrated encrypted container for SSH secrets and configuration

# Contents <!-- omit in toc -->

- [What Tabby is and isn't](#what-tabby-is-and-isnt)
- [Terminal features](#terminal-features)
- [SSH Client](#ssh-client)
- [Serial Terminal](#serial-terminal)
- [Portable](#portable)
- [Plugins](#plugins)
- [Themes](#themes)
- [Contributing](#contributing)

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# What Tabby is and isn't

* **Tabby is** an alternative to Windows' standard terminal (conhost), PowerShell ISE, PuTTY, macOS Terminal.app and iTerm

* **Tabby is not** a new shell or a MinGW or Cygwin replacement. Neither is it lightweight - if RAM usage is of importance, consider [Conemu](https://conemu.github.io) or [Alacritty](https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty)

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# Terminal features

![](docs/readme-terminal.png)

* A V220 terminal + various extensions
* Multiple nested split panes
* Tabs on any side of the window
* Optional dockable window with a global spawn hotkey ("Quake console")
* Progress detection
* Notification on process completion
* Bracketed paste, multiline paste warnings
* Font ligatures
* Custom shell profiles
* Optional RMB paste and copy-on select (PuTTY style)

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# SSH Client

![](docs/readme-ssh.png)

* SSH2 client with a connection manager
* X11 and port forwarding
* Automatic jump host management
* Agent forwarding (incl. Pageant and Windows native OpenSSH Agent)
* Login scripts

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# Serial Terminal

* Saved connections
* Readline input support
* Optional hex byte-by-byte input and hexdump output
* Newline conversion
* Automatic reconnection

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# Portable

Tabby will run as a portable app on Windows, if you create a `data` folder in the same location where `Tabby.exe` lives.

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# Plugins

Plugins and themes can be installed directly from the Settings view inside Tabby.

* [clickable-links](https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby-clickable-links) - makes paths and URLs in the terminal clickable
* [docker](https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby-docker) - connect to Docker containers
* [title-control](https://github.com/kbjr/terminus-title-control) - allows modifying the title of the terminal tabs by providing a prefix, suffix, and/or strings to be removed
* [quick-cmds](https://github.com/Domain/terminus-quick-cmds) - quickly send commands to one or all terminal tabs
* [save-output](https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby-save-output) - record terminal output into a file
* [sync-config](https://github.com/starxg/terminus-sync-config) - sync the config to Gist or Gitee
* [clippy](https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby-clippy) - an example plugin which annoys you all the time

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# Themes

* [hype](https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby-theme-hype) - a Hyper inspired theme
* [relaxed](https://github.com/Relaxed-Theme/relaxed-terminal-themes#terminus) - the Relaxed theme for Tabby
* [gruvbox](https://github.com/porkloin/terminus-theme-gruvbox)
* [windows10](https://www.npmjs.com/package/terminus-theme-windows10)
* [altair](https://github.com/yxuko/terminus-altair)

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# Contributing

Pull requests and plugins are welcome!

See [HACKING.md](https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby/blob/master/HACKING.md) and [API docs](http://ajenti.org/terminus-docs/) for information of how the project is laid out, and a very brief plugin development tutorial.

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