l0ng-aiandl0ng-ai 99a388331c fix(search): wash a match in the accent, at a strength the theme can afford (#470)
A search hit was washed from the terminal palette's selection colour at a
fixed 1.45:1 against the background, so it read as a weaker selection on a
grid that is already grey on grey — and 1.45:1 is under what a hairline is
worth, spread over a whole cell.

Two changes. The tint is now the theme's accent (`ActiveAccent`, already
floored at 3:1 by `legible_accent`), which is the one colour the terminal
surface has nothing else in. And the strength is derived per theme instead
of fixed: the wash is opaque with the glyph drawn on top, so what it may
spend is the theme's own text-contrast budget. A palette with 21:1 between
text and background can afford a wash you cannot miss; one with 6.6:1
cannot, and a single constant has to be safe for the second.

The current match drops its caret-coloured outline. That existed because a
fill 2.1:1 off the background could not say "this one" on its own; now that
it sits at the top of the theme's budget, the outline is the same colour
saying the same thing twice.

Co-authored-by: l0ng-ai <24760907+l0ng-ai@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-10 18:26:18 +08:00

tty7

tty7

A terminal workbench: persistent sessions, remote work, agents.

Pure Rust · GPU rendering on Zed's gpui · VT core from Alacritty


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Why

  • Performance — ~2× the throughput of Alacritty, Ghostty, or Kitty (benchmarks)
  • Persistent sessions — quit or reboot; your shells and supported agent sessions keep running, no tmux
  • Editor-grade input — suggestions, completion, highlighting, history search
  • Remote development — files, repos, panes, and git data stay on the remote machine
  • Native SSH — profiles, SFTP, port forwarding, and jump hosts
  • Agent-aware — Claude Code, Codex & co.: status, notifications, git context
  • CLI + Skills — agents create panes, run commands, and inspect output

Install

Native builds for each platform on Releases:

macOS …-macos-arm64.dmg · …-x86_64.dmg drag into Applications
Windows …-setup.exe · portable ….zip
Linux …-x86_64.AppImage chmod +x and run — X11/Wayland libraries bundled

What's inside

Editor-grade input ghost suggestions from history · explained tab completion · syntax highlighting · multi-line editing · click places the caret · ⌃ R fuzzy history
Window tabs & splits · ⌘ P palette · ⌘ F scrollback search · nine themes · IME
Agent-aware per-pane detection (18 CLIs): status dot · notifications · branch + diff · resume after reboot · tray icon when input is needed
Remote workspaces remote files, repos, changes, diffs, worktrees, tabs, and panes · reconnect from any client and continue where you left off
CLI + Skills bundled tty7 CLI · agent skill · pane/workspace control · real PTY commands · output, process, port, and agent status
SSH native russh stack: profiles with keychain secrets · SFTP panel · port forwarding · jump hosts · one-time, unprivileged tty7-server install

Terminal and keybinding reference: docs/features.md. The agent-facing CLI interface is documented in skills/tty7/SKILL.md.

Install the skill with:

npx skills add l0ng-ai/tty7

Benchmarks

Same machine, same day, same 155×40 grid — Apple M1 Pro, macOS 26.3.1, five-run averages (2026-07-04):

tty7 Alacritty Ghostty Kitty
Plaintext I/O — 11 MB cat (lower = better) 95 ms 239 ms 179 ms 185 ms
DOOM-fire frame rate (higher = better) 888 fps 485 fps 552 fps 617 fps
Cold-launch memory 116 MB¹ 105 MB 128 MB 130 MB

¹ GUI 105 MB + the persistent server 11 MB.

Methodology and one-command reproduction: scripts/bench/.


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A terminal workbench in pure Rust: shells, persistent sessions, SSH, coding agents. GPU-rendered on Zed's gpui, VT core from Alacritty.
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