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Warning: Early stage WIP.

VTerm based Terminal Emulator for X.

A (toy) terminal emulator built on top of:

• Eduterm: https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2018-02-24/0/POSTING-en.html
• Libvterm (used to embed terminals in Neovim and Emacs)

While Eduterm starts us off, actually using libvterm is quite difficult due to the lack of documentation. I have pieced together a bit by reading the source code of libvterm and emacs-libvterm, but am not done yet. When I do have more information, this terminal will be "complete" and I will also document the usage of libvterm clearly here or on my website as blog entries.

Install

Dependencies include X11, Xft etc.

We also need libvterm (statically compiled in):

1. Get the repo from here https://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libvterm/ into a folder called deps/libvterm.
2. Run make in deps/libvterm.
3. make in the top level.

References

X11 Clipboard:

• https://github.com/exebook/x11clipboard
• https://github.com/ColleagueRiley/Clipboard-Copy-Paste
• https://handmade.network/forums/articles/t/8544-implementing_copy_paste_in_x11

Unicode support:

• https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html (very helpful)
• https://kermitproject.org/utf8.html (samples)
• https://behdad.org/text/ (State of Text Rendering)