[HECnet] Decent OS X terminal that'll let me keys?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-01-06 18:32, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
Sure, that would make sense.   Color; sixel; other good things.   But the first requirement would be strict conformance to the spec.

Yes, which pretty much rules out everything except xterm. :-)
xterm had DEC people involved, so I have at least some confidence that they might have checked it against some specs, and not just made up their own assumptions.

As far as "colored terms with graphics" goes, I'm not sure what terminal emulators Sampsa would be thinking of. xterm definitely supports ANSI color sequences, as an extension, and like has been mentioned, there is now also Sixel support (although that is far from perfect yet). If we get that a bit more improved, soft fonts is not that far away afterwards, and then we'll have a proper VT220, and so on. I talked a bit with the person writing the sixel support about soft fonts a few weeks ago. It might happen...

	Johnny


	paul

On Jan 6, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:

Well if you're going to go through all that hassle, why not go for one of the coloured terms with graphics?

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On 6 Jan 2014, at 18:43, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:


On Jan 5, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

On 2014-01-04 21:08, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Been playing remapping some "slime slim, full size Apple" kbd but the results aren't great. Does anybody have a canonical list of VT220 escape codes, preferably in hex (I think my term's escape sequence is broken)..

Why don't you use xterm? The mappings are already correct. And as a bonus, you actually get a VT100 emulation with less bugs.

Sounds like an interesting project would be to do a proper VT2xx emulator (ideally from the DEC terminal SRM, if a copy can be found, failing that from published VT2xx manuals).   Wx would be a good way to do that, since it   s a very useable portable development environment.   Or to make it even more straightforward, in WxPython?

	paul