From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: George Nachman <gnachman@llamas.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What capabilities do you wish terminal emulators would report?
Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:30:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83blmyijn8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB5Rqom-yxMcAgiNo=F1-MjhxqNQ2qRKzvxN1muBFdougATrNw@mail.gmail.com> (message from George Nachman on Fri, 8 May 2020 00:34:27 -0700)
> From: George Nachman <gnachman@llamas.org>
> Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 00:34:27 -0700
>
> Some terminal emulator authors (VTE, xterm, tmux, mintty, libvterm, iTerm2, and others) are discussing
> building a new mechanism for reporting capabilities. For context: https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/881
>
> My goal is to collect desires from developers of popular applications. What capabilities do you wish you
> could discover about terminals that you don't already get from terminfo?
Support for bidi reordering seems to be missing.
> The results of this survey are being collected here:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H4OK8z98ptySnAPjlej56lrL6b0S1j6okwp7KLRTDBQ/edit#gid=0
> If you prefer not to use Google Docs, I have a PDF of its current contents here:
> https://iterm2.com/misc/TerminalFeaturesCandidates1.pdf
The "emacs" column seems to be empty, is that on purpose?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-08 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-08 7:34 What capabilities do you wish terminal emulators would report? George Nachman
2020-05-08 10:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-08 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-05-08 15:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-08 18:29 ` Daniel Colascione
2020-05-08 20:51 ` George Nachman
2020-05-09 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-09 19:41 ` George Nachman
2020-05-15 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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