Re:Some Terminal Frustrations
by navi-desu on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:51AM
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> 1. Define a new cross-terminal-emulator OSC sequence that instructs the terminal emulator to echo back THE WHOLE TERMINFO CAPABILITY STRING, in-band. No "user agent sniffing" with TERM. We detect features directly from now on.
XTGETTCAP does that (kindof), it's implemented by xterm, kitty, and foot.
xterm allows querying keyboard caps, plus a few others
kitty adds to that querying all integer and string caps
foot adds to that bools caps, meaning in foot you can query all of terminfo via it.
what we need to do is bring other terminal emulators up to par with foot's XTGETTCAP, and then we can finally ditch libterminfo for good.
XTGETTCAP does that (kindof), it's implemented by xterm, kitty, and foot.
xterm allows querying keyboard caps, plus a few others
kitty adds to that querying all integer and string caps
foot adds to that bools caps, meaning in foot you can query all of terminfo via it.
what we need to do is bring other terminal emulators up to par with foot's XTGETTCAP, and then we can finally ditch libterminfo for good.