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> I would love to use one of those fancy graphical terms that comes up on HN every now and then One of these (Black Screen) is among the many inspirations with which we started. > …

As soon as the project is at a point where we feel comfortable showing it to a wider audience, we'll make a proper announcement and post it to HN (among other places).

You mean that it should scroll in the opposite direction?

I think the problem is that you only know if you care about the output after the fact. For example, if "make" runs through, I usually don't care about the output. But if "make" fai…

We are currently doing most of the work offline, so it's difficult to collaborate with a far-reaching network of contributors at this point. However, if you drop me a note at , I c…

Yes, it would be nice if reflowing became more common. We are not sure if our spec requires the terminal to support reflowing (because of the resource usage implications), but the …

> i've got ~20 bashes open in various tmux configurations. the amount of times i lost command history is infuriating (e.g. due to reboot or whatever). zsh does (has an option to) c…

Hi everyone, thanks a lot for the responses. Keep them coming! As mentioned in some of my replies, we have already considered some of the things that you mentioned (and incorporate…

Oh yes. We want to have an API where clients (i.e. programs running in the terminal) can receive actual key/pointer/touch events if they choose to. The terminal may retain control …

We already have a solution for this sketched out on paper (not in writing or code yet, though). The idea is that the shell can split the terminal into "frames", where each frame ac…

> At first I would state one curious fact: [...] That part is so nicely said I might just steal it for our manifesto. :)

> "cat" could never work of course We have an idea in that direction, where each program in a pipeline can optionally specify a file type, and the last file type hint in the pipeli…

Our draft already contains a command for "set terminal into ignore-escape-sequences mode". I added that last week when someone showed how to hide malicious code in "git diff" by us…

I'm part of a small group that is working on a new set of protocols for terminals and shells, in order to move terminal handling out of the kernel as much as possible, and to repla…