Re:Windows Terminal Source Code
by tambourine_man on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @09:04PM
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Better keyboard only text selection, vertical/horizontal splits (I know about tmux, I still prefer scrolling and searching on true app), true color support, image visualizing would be nice.
VT torture test?
I think rbanffy is referring to vttest[1], but I'm not certain.
[1]: https://www.invisible-island.net/vttest/
EDIT to add: vttest is maintained by the current maintainer of xterm. It's the "torturiest" VT test I know of.
No. Not this one. It's too much work to test everything. A much more concise can be used from:
curl -q http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/multimedia/animation/vt100-animation/torturetest.vt
Whoa, thanks! It looks like I’ve got some reading to do.
It's the only modern terminal that passes the VT torture test. It supports double width and double height characters (great for terminal error messages).
It doesn't support overline (which is awesome for status lines at the bottom of the screen) and requires font support for line drawing and block graphics (Unicode 13 introduced 2x3 blocks and the next one will introduce 2x4s).
> There's something about using default apps as much as possible that appeals to me
For me it's one less thing to distract my distraction-prone brain.