• Automatic
Logging - Complete logs are automatically generated of all of the user's terminal sessions. •
Drag & Drop -
Text,
URLs, and files from GUI file managers can be dropped on Terminator to be inserted as text, with automatic quoting of filenames containing
shell meta-characters. • Find - Terminator provides you with a find function, so users can search for text and regular expressions within their terminal (including the scrollback) in the style of
less, and offering quick movement to the next or previous match. • Horizontal
Scrolling - Most terminal emulators wrap text when it intrudes upon the right margin. Terminator instead provides a horizontal
scrollbar when necessary. • Multiple
Tabs - Like tabbed
browsing. • Number Reinterpretation - Terminator will recognize numbers in a variety of
bases as the current selection, and add informational menu items to the
pop-up menu showing the same number in other bases. No more
man ascii or resorting to
bc. • Portability - Written mostly in
Java, with a small
POSIX C++ part (for pseudo-terminal support) and a
Ruby invocation
script, Terminator should compile out of the box on most modern
desktop operating systems. •
Tab Character Handling - Many terminal emulators translate tab characters into strings of spaces. If a section of text is then
copied or pasted from the terminal into a
text editor, it appears as spaces rather than tabs; Terminator remembers them as tab characters. • Unlimited Scrollback - Terminator does not throw away output when it scrolls off the top of the screen, nor when it reaches any arbitrary limit. The user must manually clear the scrollback. • Intelligent Vertical Scrolling - Terminator's scrollbar won't keep jumping when there's output if you've deliberately scrolled back to look at part of the history, but as soon as you scroll back to the bottom again, it will resume auto-scrolling. • Safe Quit - Terminator knows when you still have
processes running, and brings up a
dialog rather than just letting those processes die. •
UTF-8 - Terminator does not mangle accented characters, and it copes well with languages such as
Greek where there's a mix of normal and wide
glyphs. == See also ==