mOT

mOT

macOS Opinionated Terminal —
⌥ Space, tabs, key latency > throughput.

Download · Free

Free covers everything — full app, every update. Pro ($5) is for when my defaults aren't yours: it unlocks ~/.mot.yaml so you can swap fonts, colors, opacity, hotkey, etc.

Keyboard

Panel

⌥Space
Show / hide the panel (anywhere)
⌘⏎
Toggle windowed ↔ overlay
⌘⌃F
macOS native full-screen

Tabs

⌘T
New tab
⌘W
Close tab
⌘1–9
Switch to tab N

Text editing

⌘← / ⌘→
Line start / end
⌥← / ⌥→
Word back / forward
⌘⌫
Kill to line start
⌘⌦
Kill to line end
⌥⌫
Kill previous word
⌥⌦
Kill next word

Selection & clipboard

⌘C / ⌘V
Copy / paste
⌘A
Select all
Double-click
Select word
Triple-click
Select line
⌘⇧←↑→↓
Extend selection

Font

⌘+ / ⌘−
Bigger / smaller
⌘0
Reset to default

Scrollback

⇧PgUp / ⇧PgDn
Page up / down
⇧Home / ⇧End
Top / bottom
⌘K
Clear scrollback

Config

Defaults live in ~/.mot.yaml. Hot-reloaded on save. Editing requires a Pro license. 


font:
  name: Maple Mono
  size: 14

colors:  # macOS system colors, dark appearance
  background:     #000000
  foreground:     #AAAAAA
  black:          #000000
  red:            #FF453A
  green:          #30D158
  yellow:         #FFD60A
  blue:           #0A84FF
  magenta:        #BF5AF2
  cyan:           #64D2FF
  white:          #FFFFFF
  bright_black:   #8E8E93
  bright_red:     #FF6961
  bright_green:   #30DB5B
  bright_yellow:  #FFD426
  bright_blue:    #409CFF
  bright_magenta: #DA8FFF
  bright_cyan:    #70D7FF
  bright_white:   #FFFFFF

general:
  shell:     ""           # empty = $SHELL (login shell)
  hotkey:    opt+space  # global show/hide hotkey
  opacity:   1.0          # 0.0 transparent — 1.0 opaque