On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:25:49 -0400 Philip Kovac <pko...@cs.uml.edu> wrote:
> Regarding one of the goals of 'st,' would the suckless crowd be > interested in resolving the current admitted shortcomings of 'st' by > rolling in a fairly tiny library called libvterm (bzr repo at > http://bazaar.leonerd.org.uk/c/libvterm) by Paul 'Leonerd' Evans > (http://www.leonerd.org.uk) for handling terminal parsing? I know that > the philosophy of suckless is to generally avoid unnecessary code, but > in this case libvterm has encapsulated a lot of knowledge about > terminal behavior that would prevent a large amount of duplication of > effort. I currently use it in a toy project called x86term > (https://github.com/pkovac/x86term) which implements a terminal > emulator on bare x86 iron, the binary size hasn't gotten too large, > and libvterm allowed me to basically immediately bring it to a usable > state once the barebones needed were in place. If any of this > interests the suckless community, the author of libvterm and myself > both have interest in porting 'st' to it. > > Sincerely, > Philip Kovac > This interests me more than the st project itself but... > http://bazaar.leonerd.org.uk/c/libvterm Where in that forest of empty dirs is the code? I got an impression of a dead tree still standing, lol.
