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I have used DECALN, which is sometimes useful for testing purpose (especially in full screen, although sometimes even if it isn't). I will want to see support for the PC character set, for EUC character sets (including EUC-TRON), TRON-8 character code, bitmap fonts (including non-Unicode fonts), Xaw-like scrolling and xterm-like selecting, ability to disable receiving (not only sending) 8-bit controls (which should b…
It's a one-liner to fill your screen, and the fraction of people who even know DECALN exist is so small I wouldn't be surprised if the total invocations of DECALN by terminal users in recent decades is smaller than the number of indirect invocations by terminal implementers via vttest. It made sense as a service tool on a physical terminal, not much now. It's not that it's a problem - it's trivial to support. It's ju…
Re: Niklaus Wirth has died
#411That is good, to have separate components of the codes, that can then be reused. Do you have terminal emulator codes with such things? Then, we can see, and it can easily be modified.