HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

Re:HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal by Jtsummers on Friday July 15, 2016 @01:49PM (#12102679)

https://www.openhub.net/p/putty

Perhaps not as feature comlpete, and not my daily use terminal emulator, but it's only 110k lines of code. And it's not just a terminal emulator, that's just one thing it does in that 110k lines of code.

EDIT: I was going to look up others but I'm distracted by other obligations. My point being: Terminal Emulators aren't actually that complex.

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Re:HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal by destructionator on Friday July 15, 2016 @07:10PM (#12104374)

I wrote a terminal emulator <https://github.com/adamdruppe/terminal-emulator> and use it daily so it is good enough for me at least... clocks in at ~15k lines (including the gui helper lib).

The biggest complexity is dealing with legacy terminals... and you can really just target the handful of xterm features programs actually use and get something working without a huge amount of code.

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