tty7/docs/features.md

Features

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Input

• Ghost suggestions — your history completes the whole line as you type; → to accept
• Explained tab completion — every flag and subcommand with its description, for ~100 common commands; when tty7 has nothing to offer the Tab falls through to your shell's own completion, and the whole feature can be turned off (Settings → Terminal → Keyboard, or tab_completion in config.json)
• Syntax highlighting — as you type, nothing to install
• Fuzzy history search — ⌃ R shows what you ran, where, and whether it failed; turn it off (Settings → Terminal → Keyboard, or history_search in config.json) and ⌃ R goes to your shell instead, so an fzf / percol binding keeps working
• History from day one — your existing shell history works as-is and carries across sessions
• Line editing — click to place the caret, mouse selection, word motion, undo
• Multi-line editing — wrapped and multi-line commands edit in place; the grid shifts to keep the caret visible

In the window

• Tabs & splits — always open in the current directory
• Repo-grouped sidebar — the left tab sidebar groups rows under a header per git repository, non-repo tabs in a trailing Scratch section; branch switches and in-repo cds never move a row (sidebar_grouping in config.json: repo default, none for a flat list)
• Command palette ⌘ P · scrollback search ⌘ F
• ⌘/Ctrl-click links (⌘ on macOS, Ctrl on Windows/Linux) · desktop notifications · copy on select (opt-in, Settings → Terminal → Clipboard)
• Smart double-click selection — double-click grabs the whole URL, file path, bracket/quote pair, or dictionary-segmented CJK word under the cursor; Shift-click extends a selection (toggle in Settings → Terminal → Mouse; word separators via word_separators in config.json)
• Nine themes, plus your own — YAML seed themes with solid, gradient, or image backgrounds; iTerm2 .itermcolors import; in-app color editor with a background-image picker
• Sync with system — Settings → Appearance; pick separate light and dark themes and tty7 follows the OS appearance live (theme_follow_system, theme_preset_light / theme_preset_dark in config.json)
• Window opacity & blur — Settings → Appearance → Window; applies to every theme, Follow theme returns to the theme's own opacity / blur
• CJK / IME input

Fonts

• Hack is bundled — it ships inside the binary, so the default renders identically everywhere without relying on a system install
• Primary + ordered fallbacks — font_family and font_fallbacks in config.json; optional font_family_bold / font_family_italic for distinct faces, and font_features to pass OpenType features through (contextual ligatures stay off unless you ask for them)
• Platform-aware defaults — the fallback list names faces the host OS actually ships (PingFang SC / Apple Color Emoji on macOS, Microsoft YaHei / Segoe UI Emoji on Windows, Noto on Linux). Those stock names are appended to a hand-written list too, so a config.json written on another platform still resolves

CJK and the two-column grid

A cell is one advance of the primary face, and a wide (CJK) character is pinned to exactly two of them. A CJK fallback therefore sits flush in its slot only if its ideographs advance twice the primary's Latin advance.

Bundled Hack advances 0.60205em, so a two-column slot is 1.2041em — while every stock CJK face (Microsoft YaHei, PingFang SC, Noto Sans CJK) advances 1.0em. Those glyphs get left-aligned in the slot and the leftover ~0.2em lands as a gap on the right of every character.

Maple Mono NF CN is tried first on every platform for exactly this reason — 0.6em Latin, 1.2em CJK, an exact two-cell fit against Hack. It is referenced by name only, never bundled (~20MB per weight): install it and tty7 picks it up with no config change.

For CJK set tight rather than merely even, change the primary face instead — one that advances 0.5em (Sarasa Mono SC, say) makes two columns exactly 1.0em.

Coding agents

tty7 recognizes third-party coding agents running in a pane (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Aider, Amp, OpenCode, and ~10 more) and adds around them — it never wraps or replaces the agent.

• Brand avatars — the tab chip / sidebar row shows which agent runs where; custom wrappers map in via agent_commands in config.json
• Status dot — working (blue) / needs your input (amber) / done (green), driven by agent-reported events over an OSC channel; Settings → Agents installs the hooks that feed it (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Pi, Grok Build)
• Notifications — "needs your permission…" the moment an agent blocks on you, and "finished after Ns" per turn, honoring your notification policy
• Branch at a glance — each sidebar row shows its pane's git branch and working-tree diff (+N −M), refreshed on cd and when a command finishes
• Session resume — panes lost to a reboot re-launch their agent conversation on restore, carrying the original launch flags (claude --dangerously-skip-permissions --resume …) (restore_agent_sessions, on by default)
• Fork session — branch a live agent conversation into a second, independent one by shelling the agent's own fork command (codex fork <id>, claude --resume <id> --fork-session, also OpenCode and Grok Build); the original is untouched and both continue separately. Right-click a pane to pick a split placement, or right-click the tab / sidebar row to open the fork in a new tab. Needs the agent's hooks installed, since the fork targets the session id they report; a remote pane can't fork, because the command would run against the local agent — and note a fork copies the whole transcript, so repeated forking costs real disk in the agent's own session store
• Copy Session ID — put the agent's native session id on the clipboard, beside Copy Working Directory, for pasting into codex resume, a bug report, or another tool
• Context feed — palette commands send the current selection or the repo's git diff to the running agent as a ready-made prompt
• Tray icon — a system tray / menu bar item that flips to an attention state the moment any agent needs your input; its menu lists every agent pane (brand avatar + status dot, click to reveal), switches the notification policy, and offers Quit and Stop Daemon alongside the plain session-keeping quit (show_tray_icon, on by default)

SSH

A native Rust SSH stack (russh) is the only path — profiles, credentials, and SFTP without shelling out to ssh. There is no system-ssh compat mode.

• QuickConnect — type user@host[:port] in the palette and connect; IPv6 [::1]:port supported
• Saved profiles — full connection config with passwords / passphrases in the OS keychain, never on disk
• ~/.ssh/config aliases — type one to connect (resolved natively — common fields, best-effort — over russh), or import them as profiles in Settings
• GUI auth — in-pane sheets for password, key passphrase, 2FA, and host-key confirmation (new vs. changed)
• Built-in SFTP — a slide-in file panel: browse, upload / download, rename / delete / chmod, drag to Finder
• Port forwarding — Local / Remote / Dynamic, preconfigured or added live, plus ⌘/Ctrl-click localhost:PORT to auto-forward
• Jump hosts & proxies — multi-hop via profile references or ProxyJump, ProxyCommand, SOCKS5 / HTTP

Entry point	Connects via
Saved profiles · QuickConnect · typed user@host[:port]	Native russh — SFTP · keychain · GUI auth · L/R/D forwards
~/.ssh/config aliases	Resolved natively, then russh (Match/canonicalize/GSSAPI unsupported — no fallback)

Keybindings

Keys are shown in macOS notation — on Windows and Linux, read ⌘ as Ctrl. The essentials:

⌘ T · ⌘ W · ⌘ ⇧ T	new tab · close tab · reopen closed tab
⌘ 1…⌘ 9 · ⌃ ⇥ · ⌃ ⇧ ⇥	jump to tab 1–9 · next tab · previous tab
⌘ D · ⌘ ⇧ D	split right · split down
⌘ ] · ⌘ [	next pane · previous pane
⌘ ⌥ ←→↑↓	focus the pane in that direction
⌘ ⏎ · ⌘ ⇧ ⏎	toggle fullscreen · maximize / restore the pane
⌘ K	clear the screen and scrollback
⌘ P	command palette
⌘ F	search the scrollback
⌃ R	fuzzy-search shell history
⌘ + · ⌘ − · ⌘ 0	font size up · down · reset

Settings → Keybindings (⌘ ,) lists every shortcut. Click one, press the new keys (Esc cancels, Backspace resets to default), and it takes effect immediately. Pane resize and swap have no default keys — bind them here or run them from the command palette.

tmux preset — remaps pane/tab actions onto a prefix (default ⌃ B): ⌃ B C opens a tab, ⌃ B % splits, ⌃ B then an arrow moves focus. A bare prefix reaches the shell after a brief pause; prefix + an unbound key passes straight through.

Performance notes

• The PTY is read at device speed and parsed in large batches, off the render path
• Hot paths are lock-free — a big cat never waits on drawing
• The daemon buffers up to 16 MiB ahead of the window before backpressure applies