mlterm does not use VTE

Posted Sep 15, 2019 0:43 UTC (Sun) by egmont (guest, #134373)
Parent article: A look at terminal emulators, part 1

The first table of the article says that mlterm uses VTE. This is probably a silly editing mistake, mlterm doesn't use and never used VTE, it implements terminal emulation on its own.

(Editors/reviewers: Feel free to fix this mistake and delete this comment, thanks!)

mlterm does not use VTE

Posted Sep 15, 2019 1:05 UTC (Sun) by egmont (guest, #134373) [Link] (1 responses)

What might have easily confused you, though, is that mlterm ships a library which claims to be API-compatible with VTE.

mlterm does not use VTE

Posted Sep 18, 2019 16:34 UTC (Wed) by tao (subscriber, #17563) [Link]

Is there any particular reason why it doesn't use VTE if the library is VTE API-compatible anyway? Just NIH, or does VTE lack some functionality (and if so, wouldn't it be easier to contribute that to VTE?)