On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Aurélien Aptel <aurelien.ap...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That the concept of 'pty' still exists in the year 2009 is quite >> fucking amazing. I'm surprised we don't carry punchcards around >> anymore. > > I was thinking the exact same thing when I wrote the pty part. > They're not well documented, they're really dated and every OS handle > them differently (when they handle them at all), some functions are > POSIX, some of them BSD-only (but are implemented in linux...). > > On a different subject, the current design of st is not really adapted > to the things it's supposed to do (see the goal page). When I started > st (originaly bt) I just wanted a simple terminal (simple as in simple > tiny and sane xterm replacement) but the suckless goals are obviously > different. So st will need a rewrite at some point. (thank you captain > obvious, etc)
Nah, Arg just has no clue. Let him write his own terminal with his own retarded 'features' if he wants one. I have not tried st, but I do like your original goal. uriel
