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wlterm: the native Wayland terminal emulator

Posted Sep 27, 2012 16:22 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: wlterm: the native Wayland terminal emulator by bkw1a
Parent article: wlterm: the native Wayland terminal emulator

The second sentence of the first paragraph of the synopsis is sufficient to persuade me that even if vttest is a useful and effective program, it needs to be either replaced, or forked by someone who doesn't laud knowledge-hiding.

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Posted Sep 27, 2012 19:28 UTC (Thu) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]

That sentence doesn't strike me as endorsing knowledge hiding, so much as not wanting to maintain a duplicate (and likely outdated) description of the tested functionality beyond that embodied in the source code. A quick look at the xterm ctlseqs document will typically provide enough information to fix a vttest failure.

wlterm: the native Wayland terminal emulator

Posted Sep 27, 2012 19:43 UTC (Thu) by bkw1a (subscriber, #4101) [Link]

Thanks for pointing out the ctlseqs.txt document:

http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.txt

If I ever knew about it, I'd forgotten. I think it's interesting that all of the tektronix and vt52 stuff is only the last 6% or so of this long file.