On Jul 30, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
The main problem with creating such mode is that there are like 30 years of legacy stuff involved when creating a terminal emulator. I.e. this would be a serious drain on my resources, alone fully understanding all this tty stuff is beyond my current capabilities.
FWIW, "M-x shell" doesn't give you a proper terminal -- it only emulates a dumb terminal which is good enough for the times that you want a shell inside your editor. Not sure how much that simplifies things, but at least it means you don't need to understand vt100 (much less xterm control sequences).
My secret plan is to open up more of TextMate’s internal API (in 2.x) and hopefully then someone else can create a terminal mode / port an existing terminal to use TextMate as back-end or similar.
Integration w/CocoaTechTerminal would be interesting. :-)
j.