Re: [dev] [st] 0.3 release

From: Aurélien Aptel <aurelien.aptel_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 21:37:14 +0100

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Christoph Lohmann <20h_AT_r-36.net> wrote:
> Greetings comrades.
>
> St 0.3 has been released and much has changed.

Thank you Christoph --and everybody involved in this new release-- for
keeping st alive :)
I've a lot of work this year and I can't find the time nor the energy
to focus on my personal projects, sorry.

> The biggest changes are:
> * New drawing code, which is way more faster and comparable to the
> other terminals out there.
> * Many new escape sequences are supported:
> * setting the title
> * LNM, KAM, SI, SO, SUB, CAN, DA, DECID. OSC, DSC, PM, APC,
> CHT, HTS, CBT, SM, RM, standout mode … (See st.info.)
> * Linedrawing is now supported
> * Xft and Fontcache is now used to draw fonts.
> * support for italic and bold italic font drawing
> * Some more commandline parameters are available. (See manpage.)
> * easy debugging with: st -o - | cat -v
> * nyancat(1) works.
> * external support of utmp entries by using utmp(1)[1]

We should try to improve and cleanup the selection code. It has not
changed much since pancake initial PoC and it lacks several features
like the support of very common/basic Atoms like STRING (try pasting
xfontsel result in st).
Received on Mon Nov 05 2012 - 21:37:14 CET