On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Anselm R Garbe<garb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/8/22 Ray Kohler <ataraxia...@gmail.com>: >> I'm rather curious on where st will go, and what kinds of things other >> terminals do that it will or won't do. > > Well my plan is to achieve *good* xterm compliance and 256 color > support. As you know xterm is not really fully vt100 or vt220 > compliant, so that's also not a goal of st. Full xterm support will be difficult. There are lots of features in its terrible source code. Just check the official README, it's kind of scary:
> Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here > > > This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution. It was one of > the first "serious" programs ported, and still has a lot of historical > baggage. > Ideally, there would be a general tty widget and then vt102 and tek4014 > subwidgets so that they could be used in other programs. We are trying to > clean things up as we go, but there is still a lot of work to do. >> In particular: >> - Is a scrollback buffer objectionable in principle, such that we >> should expect to "just use GNU screen"? IMHO the scrollback buffer is useless since you can use different tools (as you said) to achieve that ($PAGER, screen, etc). >> - Will it implement enough of xterm's capabilities that I could lie >> about $TERM and expect it to mostly work? I log into many remote >> machines of various OS types and ages, and some of them don't make it >> easy to install user-specific terminfo entries. GNU screen handle this by fallbacking to vt100. See <http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/unix/package/epics/extensions/iocConsole/screen.1.html#lbAN>
