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Linux Terminal Emulators Have The Potential Of Being Much Faster
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Speed is far from the only thing that matters in terminal emulators though. Correctness is critical.
The only terminals in which I have any confidence of correctness are
xterm
andpangoterm
. And I suppose technically the BEL-for-ST extension is incorrect even there, but we have to live with that and a workaround is available.A lot of terminal emulators end up hard-coding a handful of common sequences, and fail to correctly ignore sequences they don't implement. And worse, many go on to implement sequences that cannot be correctly handled.
One simple example that usually fails:
\e!!F
. More nasty, however, are the ones that ignore intermediaries and execute some unrelated command instead.I can't be bothered to pick apart specific terminals anymore. Most don't even know what an IR is.
I'm glad I'm not a terminal emulator or I'd feel personally attacked.