Full-Featured Terminal Emulator

[coder_07]

So I've seen projects like Dyos and Snap!Nix Neo which have text-based output, and as of me writing this Dyos's terminal works a bit weirdly, and neither support ANSI escape sequences. So let's change that, and create a terminal emulator that supports ANSI and can easily be integrated into any project. I've created a SMERGE for this, alongside a simple terminal as a basis point, which can be accessed here.

Here's what I want out of this:

• A terminal emulator that:
  • Can output text sent to it
  • Can take keyboard input and give it to the program
  • Supports ANSI escape sequences
  • Stretch goals:
    • Customizable colors
    • Scrolling
    • A spawnable window
    • HTTP Connectivity

[joecooldoo]

Would it be possible to make it like zsh (like auto-completion for text, numbers, programs, and files)? And maybe this could even be a tool that you could load into your project for debugging things like variables and broadcasts through a window that you can spawn

[bluebaritone21]

I could to text input, using something similar to my Project Console

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Implementing ANSI escape sequences could be an interesting technical challenge.

(Also, I think MS-DOS (or most versions of Windows, for that matter) doesn't/don't support ANSI codes.)

[coder_07]

@joecooldoo

Would it be possible to make it like zsh (like auto-completion for text, numbers, programs, and files)? And maybe this could even be a tool that you could load into your project for debugging things like variables and broadcasts

those could be sample projects included with the program, because this is more of just text i/o. having

@joecooldoo

a window that you can spawn

would be quite interesting. i'll add it to the stretch goals

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@bluebaritone21

I could to text input, using something similar to my Project Console

ok

[bluebaritone21]

I made some slight changes (committed to SMERGE). Are they okay with you?

[mr_owlssssnap2]

@coder_07

terminal emulator

simulator?

[joecooldoo]

Terminal emulator

It's this thing:

(Except usually less fancy, my terminal emulator has many customization options enabled.)

[coder_07]

yes

[coder_07]

i'm going to work on control code (not escape sequences, those are different) support

[bluebaritone21]

This might be feature creep, but would it be fine if I write a https-based system to connect the terminal emulator to actual machines later?

[coder_07]

yeah, as long as things don't get too out of hand.

[ego-lay_atman-bay]

SSH in snap, that's an interesting idea.

[bluebaritone21]

Is SMERGE down? I can't seem to access the project...

[coder_07]

seems like it is.