Re: [dwm] st

A simple terminal is a an excellent idea, and I look forward to
testing it! Unfortunately, at the moment, I get the following error
whenever I run st:

st: Can't open a pseudo teletype
st: Quitting

John

On 8/8/06, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_10kloc.org> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> today I did some research on the terminal side. I found
> xvt-1.0.tar.Z back from 1992, which looks like a good starting
> point (however, it already contained much clunk I don't plan for
> st).
>
> Current st sources depend on this old xvt (thus the VT102
> emulation has no color support and some other oddities), but I'm
> quite sure it is possible, to get a working terminal < 4kSLOC
> which is fast and reliable.
>
> You can test the current development state (it's only a hacked
> up xvt) from
>
> hg clone http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/st
>
> (currently it consists of 3500 kSLOC)
>
> If you have access/no some other tiny terminal implementations,
> please let me know. Looking into eterm, rxvt, xterm, urxvt
> and libvte made me sick. They consist of totally retarded and
> fucked up source code.
>
> I also looked into the 9term source of p9p, but that is too
> p9-oriented already (and I want a replacement for existing
> terminals with VT102 support, at least as an option).
>
> Any hints, also via privmail are welcome.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361
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