Hi there, today I did some research on the terminal side. I found xvt-1.0.tar.Z back from 1992, which looks like a good starting point (however, it already contained much clunk I don't plan for st).
Current st sources depend on this old xvt (thus the VT102 emulation has no color support and some other oddities), but I'm quite sure it is possible, to get a working terminal < 4kSLOC which is fast and reliable. You can test the current development state (it's only a hacked up xvt) from hg clone http://10kloc.org/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi/st (currently it consists of 3500 kSLOC) If you have access/no some other tiny terminal implementations, please let me know. Looking into eterm, rxvt, xterm, urxvt and libvte made me sick. They consist of totally retarded and fucked up source code. I also looked into the 9term source of p9p, but that is too p9-oriented already (and I want a replacement for existing terminals with VT102 support, at least as an option). Any hints, also via privmail are welcome. Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe ><>< www.ebrag.de ><>< GPG key: 0D73F361 _______________________________________________ wmii@wmii.de mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
