2009/8/23 Aurélien Aptel <aurelien.ap...@gmail.com>: > 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:
There is no plan to achieve full xterm support. I know that good xterm support is kind of vague. >> 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. To the xterm folks: Let me suggest to scrap the entire project and do it from scratch ;) Kind regards, Anselm
