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> do you have any plans to use Alacritty to try and advance the state of terminal emulators more generally? I hadn't replied to this because others had already
by jwilm 10y ago
> do you have any plans to use Alacritty to try and advance the state of terminal emulators more generally?
I hadn't replied to this because others had already provided all of the info I have. To summarize, the author of notty[0] and I are talking about a collaboration[1]. notty has done a ton of pathfinding in this area on identifying how to add many of these features in a backwards compatible way. I'm really looking forward to see where it goes!
[0]: https://github.com/withoutboats/notty https://github.com/withoutboats/notty
[1]: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/51 https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/51
- quotemstr 10y agoAs long as we're talking about terminals: 1) TERM is broken: https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/term-is-terminally-broken/10154219967001102/ https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/term-is-ter... 2) We need to start adding capabilities to terminfo again --- see the incredible mess in bracketed paste support, true color support, etc. 3) TIOCSTI is a giant truck-sized security hole. We need to stop supporting it.
- traverseda 10y agoIs adding those features in a backwards compatible way really that important? Couldn't you just have a program send an escape code telling your term to go into "new" mode, and implement some completely different standard? Or I suppose use terminfo, but I like the idea of dealing with text streams better.
- quotemstr 10y ago> Or I suppose use terminfo What do you think terminfo does?!