[openbeos] Re: OBOS Terminal
- From: "Andrew Bachmann" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 13:07:48 -0700 PDT
Daniel Furrer <daniel_furrer@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just wanted to tell ya, that I'm working on the Terminal.
> Also I'd like to ask if there's anybody else still working on it?
>
> cya,
> Daniel Furrer
Hello Daniel,
Both I and MYOB have been working on Terminal. Unfortunately
I do not have much time to review his work recently so I simply
committed his work on adapting MuTerm for our purposes. There
are still a number of outstanding issues:
1. the version in apps/terminal parses all the command line
options but has no functionality.
2. the version in apps/terminal/MYOB parses some of the
command line options
3. neither version respects the default settings file
4. there are still some menu functionality missing
5. the "partial delete of multi-byte characters" bug from R5
still exists
In short, the MuTerm adaptation needs to get the command
line parsing from the existing terminal implementation. All
of the above should be fixed for R1. I should point out that
multiple encodings support _is required_ for R1 compatibility.
A feature that you could skip but one that I and MYOB were
both interested in is:
1. re-wrap text when the window is resized horizontally.
Two other potential R5 issues that you may end up addressing
are:
1. programs run from inside Terminal die and the shell doesn't
return (this is possibly associated with dup/pipe/etc)
2. termcap compatibility issues (including handling escape
sequences such as: echo -e "\E]-;$PWD\a" )
Since I am out right now please coordinate with MYOB on
what you want to do.
Andrew
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