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There may not be a good solution currently, but I don't believe that no good solution is possible even in theory. Which makes me wonder if the VT100 paradigm is

by philh 11y ago

There may not be a good solution currently, but I don't believe that no good solution is possible even in theory. Which makes me wonder if the VT100 paradigm is holding us back. Like, if a VT100 understood the concept of tabs natively, it seems like this wouldn't be a problem. Screen could just map its windows onto VT100 tabs, and the terminal would know what to do with that. I don't know if adding tabs to VT100 emulators would be remotely feasible, or a good idea if it was, but I expect there's something in this space that would be an improvement on what we have.

peteri 11y ago
Eh. A real VT100 should understand tabs, you can set them with 'Esc H' oddly the DEC manuals don't say what the effect of resetting tabs would be (I'd guess it defaults to multiples of 8 characters).
- yuubi 11y ago
  Not \x08 tabs, but tabs like recent firefox and chrome use (as if you had several terminal windows with separate ptys and screen contents, but all in one window-manager window).