Re: [dev] [st] goals / non-goals for st?

From: Aurélien Aptel <aurelien.aptel_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 02:34:44 +0200

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Rory McCann <tirard22_AT_googlemail.com> wrote:
> I just tried out ST, it seems to have very bad flickering issues just now. ls-ing a large directory made it go horrible and vim was unusable.

We have to use pixmaps to draw faster (I'm working on this) and handle utf8.
Vim seems pretty usable to me. Did you compile the terminfo entry ?

At this point, tracking buggy escape sequence is hard because visual
glitches don't automatically points to faulty escapes handler.

> On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 05:48:43PM +0000, Jacob Todd wrote:
>> Going through the st goals / non-goals thread I've compiled this list of:
>>
>> What st is going to do so far (Arg said so):
>> - *good* xterm compliance
>> - 256 colour support
>> - filters that change colour and shit
>> - server to save session in case you crash X
>> - unlimited scroll back buffer
>>
>> and
>>
>> What people want added:
>> - redirect the IO of the terminal to a file. (pancake)
>> - st should keep a pointer to the beggining of the oldest line, because we would
>>   like to keep lines and not part of them. (pancake)
>> - edit previous text in the terminal like in Plan 9 and 9term (me(jt_))
>> - some more stuff
>>
>> Goals:
>> - suck less
>>
>> Non-goals:
>> - ??
>>
>> Add what you want. Maybe I should make a wiki page in st.suckless.org for this?
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