I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice – Using 24-Bit Color in Terminals

Re:I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice – Using 24-Bit Color in ... by tambourine_man on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:08AM (#39191796)

I’d like to know more of the motivations for building your own terminal. Are you using a library or written all from scratch?

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Re:I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice – Using 24-Bit Color in ... by vidarh on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:15AM (#39191873)

See a lengthier reply elsewhere in this thread, re: motivations etc. but it's almost all from scratch. Frankly, a simple terminal is not a huge amount of work, and you can get something working "well enough" to start with with very little code.

The huge amount of work comes from nailing all the quirks you will have to deal with if you let a bunch of other users loose on it, with their expectations of running all kinds of applications I've never tested that does weird stuff.

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Re:I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice – Using 24-Bit Color in ... by tambourine_man on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @11:55AM (#39192438)

Yeah, the last 10%. I saw your reply after posting mine, thanks.

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Re:I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice – Using 24-Bit Color in ... by ddingus on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @06:20PM (#39197380)

Famously the last 90% of the project :(

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