Re: [dev] Adding "good" xterm support to st

From: Andrew Hills <hills.as_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 14:33:47 -0400

$ bzr clone http://bazaar.leonerd.org.uk/c/libvterm
$ cd libvterm
$ ls
LICENSE Makefile doc include src t tbl2inc_c.pl vterm.pc.in
$ ls src
encoding input.c pen.c screen.c unicode.c vterm.c
encoding.c parser.c rect.h state.c utf8.h vterm_internal.h

Does that help?

--Andrew Hills


On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57_AT_fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:25:49 -0400
> Philip Kovac <pkovac_AT_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.
>
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