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@thrx11

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well, i’m just trying to make a good terminal emulator from scratch, which I (and maybe others too) can daily drive.

what has been implemented till now:
it is currently a functioning graphically rendered terminal emulator written in C, it spawns a real bash shell, parses its ‘ANSI’ output and renders everything live using the SDL2 library. It’s still bad at handling interactive stuff like vim, but it can run all sorts of basic commands.

a lot of stuff is still broken tho:

you still cant see a visible cursor, ctrl+right/left doesnt work, ctrl+backspace wont delete, the window size is fixed, and there’s no clipboard!!!
and for some reason my cpu runs too hot when I use term11, ehh maybe because im rendering everything from scratch in each frame.

I’ll be implementing stuff one by one, fixing the broken stuff so stay tuned

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term11
well, i’m just trying to make a good terminal emulator from scratch, which I (and maybe others too) can daily drive.

what has been implemented till now:
it is currently a functioning graphically rendered terminal emulator written in C, it spawns a real bash shell, parses its ‘ANSI’ output and renders everything live using the SDL2 library. It’s still bad at handling interactive stuff like vim, but it can run all sorts of basic commands.

a lot of stuff is still broken tho:

you still cant see a visible cursor, ctrl+right/left doesnt work, ctrl+backspace wont delete, the window size is fixed, and there’s no clipboard!!!
and for some reason my cpu runs too hot when I use term11, ehh maybe because im rendering everything from scratch in each frame.

I’ll be implementing stuff one by one, fixing the broken stuff so stay tuned

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a terminal emulator

i am just interested in how computers work at the low levels, and i recently switched to linux from windows, the terminal is a very integral part of linux and i was quite curious how it really works

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a terminal emulator

i am just interested in how computers work at the low levels, and i recently switched to linux from windows, the terminal is a very integral part of linux and i was quite curious how it really works

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