Integration of libvterm

Integration of libvterm

[Lukas Fürmetz]

Hello,

I have a working terminal prototype integrating emacs and libvterm at
https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm. As for now every terminal
starts a thread, which throws a signal, when there's something to read
on the master file descriptor. This is quite inefficient. I think
integrating libvterm into emacs-core could solve many problems the
current implementation has. Is there interest for a patch?

Greetings
Lukas

Re: Integration of libvterm

[Philipp Stephani]

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Lukas Fürmetz <fuermetz@mailbox.org> schrieb am Di., 19. Dez. 2017 um
23:25 Uhr:

> Hello,
>
> I have a working terminal prototype integrating emacs and libvterm at
> https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm. As for now every terminal
> starts a thread, which throws a signal, when there's something to read
> on the master file descriptor. This is quite inefficient. I think
> integrating libvterm into emacs-core could solve many problems the
> current implementation has. Is there interest for a patch?
>

Sounds like a good idea to me.

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Re: Integration of libvterm

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:24:52 +0100 Lukas Fürmetz <fuermetz@mailbox.org> wrote: 

LF> I have a working terminal prototype integrating emacs and libvterm at
LF> https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm. As for now every terminal
LF> starts a thread, which throws a signal, when there's something to read
LF> on the master file descriptor. This is quite inefficient. I think
LF> integrating libvterm into emacs-core could solve many problems the
LF> current implementation has. Is there interest for a patch?

It would help if here or in the Introduction on the Github page you
explained:

* what problem is solved for the user (yes, embeds a vterm, but why)?
* how it compares to Eshell, ansi-term, emamux, etc.
* what core code you propose to add (at least a rough plan)

Thanks
Ted