Re: [dwm] [ANNOUNCE] dvtm - dynamic virtual terminal manager - aka dwm for the console

From: Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 19:54:29 +0100

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:52:23PM +0100, Tuncer Ayaz wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2007 2:38 PM, Enno Gottox Boland <gottox_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I like the idea, but librote lacks terminal resizing. There's no
> > proper library for terminal emulation now. I think we should start a
> > project to implement vt100 in a library in a suckless way. What do you
> > think about this idea?
>
> Good idea. Could be definitely worthwile. Something like libvt with
> dtach/screen capabilities?
>
> Anselm, would st include any such code which could/should
> be shared? Just curious as I don't know much about unix
> terminal emulation other than that it is pretty outdated
> compared to what Plan9 has :)

libvt might be an idea. st definately might use it. However, st
is planned to replace screen/dtach, a terminal should be a
viewer only to something like an st-client (screen/dtach)
instance.

Regards,

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