You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You switched accounts on another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.Dismiss alert
Currently, TermKit relies on ncurses, which poses a number of problems:
Sometimes the library has not been updated in years, so we need to resort to fallbacks, or avoid newer capabilities
Sometimes it has been compiled with different options or modern capabilities were not enabled at build time.
Some of the very concrete examples include Apple's version that does not even support bold colors in ncurses, let alone 256 colors or true color.
So it might be time to implement a native driver, both one that can work with arbitrary terminfo databases, as well as one for "true" xterm emulators, where we can leverage the entire set of xterm capabilities.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
migueldeicaza
changed the title
Implement Unix terminal driver
Curse-less Unix terminal driver
Apr 16, 2021
Currently, TermKit relies on ncurses, which poses a number of problems:
Some of the very concrete examples include Apple's version that does not even support bold colors in ncurses, let alone 256 colors or true color.
So it might be time to implement a native driver, both one that can work with arbitrary terminfo databases, as well as one for "true" xterm emulators, where we can leverage the entire set of xterm capabilities.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: