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> 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?