<s>
Terminator	B-Application
is	O
an	O
open-source	O
terminal	B-Application
emulator	I-Application
programmed	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
available	O
on	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
,	O
macOS	B-Application
,	O
Linux	B-Application
and	O
other	O
Unix	B-Application
systems	I-Application
that	O
use	O
the	O
X	B-Operating_System
Window	I-Operating_System
System	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Terminator	B-Application
will	O
run	O
on	O
any	O
modern	O
POSIX	O
system	O
running	O
Java	B-Language
6	I-Language
or	O
later	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Terminator	B-Application
is	O
licensed	O
under	O
the	O
GPL-2.0-or-later	B-License
license	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Terminator	B-Application
was	O
originally	O
written	O
by	O
Phil	O
Norman	O
,	O
who	O
produced	O
a	O
more-or-less	O
usable	O
replacement	O
for	O
rxvt	B-Application
on	O
his	O
own	O
between	O
21	O
April	O
2004	O
and	O
28	O
May	O
2004	O
;	O
roughly	O
a	O
month	O
of	O
development	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Elliott	O
Hughes	O
took	O
Phil	O
's	O
terminal	B-Application
emulation	I-Application
and	O
used	O
it	O
as	O
a	O
base	O
upon	O
which	O
he	O
could	O
experiment	O
with	O
advanced	O
terminal	B-Application
emulator	I-Application
features	O
and	O
continues	O
to	O
actively	O
develop	O
Terminator	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Martin	O
Dorey	O
ported	O
Terminator	B-Application
to	O
Cygwin	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
Drag	O
&	O
Drop	O
-	O
Text	O
and	O
URLs	O
,	O
and	O
files	O
from	O
Finder/Nautilus/Windows	O
Explorer	O
can	O
be	O
dropped	O
on	O
Terminator	B-Application
to	O
be	O
inserted	O
as	O
text	O
,	O
with	O
automatic	O
quoting	O
of	O
filenames	O
containing	O
shell	B-Operating_System
meta-characters	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Find	O
-	O
Terminator	B-Application
provides	O
you	O
with	O
a	O
find	O
function	O
,	O
so	O
users	O
can	O
search	O
for	O
text	O
and	O
regular	O
expressions	O
within	O
their	O
terminal	O
(	O
including	O
the	O
scrollback	O
)	O
in	O
the	O
style	O
of	O
less	B-Application
,	O
and	O
offering	O
quick	O
movement	O
to	O
the	O
next	O
or	O
previous	O
match	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Horizontal	O
Scrolling	O
-	O
Most	O
terminal	B-Application
emulators	I-Application
wrap	O
text	O
when	O
it	O
intrudes	O
upon	O
the	O
right	O
margin	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Terminator	B-Application
instead	O
provides	O
a	O
horizontal	O
scrollbar	O
when	O
necessary	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Multiple	O
Tabs	O
-	O
Like	O
tabbed	O
browsing	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Number	O
Reinterpretation	O
-	O
Terminator	B-Application
will	O
recognize	O
numbers	O
in	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
bases	O
as	O
the	O
current	O
selection	O
,	O
and	O
add	O
informational	O
menu	O
items	O
to	O
the	O
pop-up	O
menu	O
showing	O
the	O
same	O
number	O
in	O
other	O
bases	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
No	O
more	O
man	B-Protocol
ascii	B-Protocol
or	O
resorting	O
to	O
bc	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Portability	O
-	O
Written	O
mostly	O
in	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
with	O
a	O
small	O
POSIX	O
C++	B-Language
part	O
(	O
for	O
pseudo-terminal	O
support	O
)	O
and	O
a	O
Ruby	B-Language
invocation	O
script	B-Language
,	O
Terminator	B-Application
should	O
compile	O
out	O
of	O
the	O
box	O
on	O
most	O
modern	O
desktop	B-General_Concept
operating	I-General_Concept
systems	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Tab	O
Character	O
Handling	O
-	O
Many	O
terminal	B-Application
emulators	I-Application
translate	O
tab	O
characters	O
into	O
strings	O
of	O
spaces	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
If	O
a	O
section	O
of	O
text	O
is	O
then	O
copied	B-General_Concept
or	I-General_Concept
pasted	I-General_Concept
from	O
the	O
terminal	O
into	O
a	O
text	B-Application
editor	I-Application
,	O
it	O
appears	O
as	O
spaces	O
rather	O
than	O
tabs	O
;	O
Terminator	B-Application
remembers	O
them	O
as	O
tab	O
characters	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Unlimited	O
Scrollback	O
-	O
Terminator	B-Application
does	O
not	O
throw	O
away	O
output	O
when	O
it	O
scrolls	O
off	O
the	O
top	O
of	O
the	O
screen	O
,	O
nor	O
when	O
it	O
reaches	O
any	O
arbitrary	O
limit	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Intelligent	O
Vertical	O
Scrolling	O
-	O
Terminator	B-Application
's	O
scrollbar	O
wo	O
n't	O
keep	O
jumping	O
when	O
there	O
's	O
output	O
if	O
you	O
've	O
deliberately	O
scrolled	O
back	O
to	O
look	O
at	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
history	O
,	O
but	O
as	O
soon	O
as	O
you	O
scroll	O
back	O
to	O
the	O
bottom	O
again	O
,	O
it	O
will	O
resume	O
auto-scrolling	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Safe	O
Quit	O
-	O
Terminator	B-Application
knows	O
when	O
you	O
still	O
have	O
processes	B-Operating_System
running	O
,	O
and	O
brings	O
up	O
a	O
dialog	O
rather	O
than	O
just	O
letting	O
those	O
processes	B-Operating_System
die	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
UTF-8	O
-	O
Terminator	B-Application
does	O
not	O
mangle	O
accented	O
characters	O
,	O
and	O
it	O
copes	O
well	O
with	O
languages	O
such	O
as	O
Greek	O
where	O
there	O
's	O
a	O
mix	O
of	O
normal	O
and	O
wide	O
glyphs	B-Application
.	O
</s>
