freebsd-ports/devel/libtsm/pkg-descr
Yuri Victorovich 5227936c18 New port: devel/libtsm: Terminal-emulator state machine
PR:		219971
Submitted by:	Angus Gibson <freebsd@angus.agibson.me>
Approved by:	tcberner (mentor)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13302
2017-12-03 18:02:41 +00:00

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TSM is a state machine for DEC VT100-VT520 compatible terminal emulators. It
tries to support all common standards while keeping compatibility to existing
emulators like xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, etc.
TSM itself does not provide any rendering nor window management. It is a simple
plain state machine without any external dependencies. It can be used to
implement terminal emulators, but also to implement other applications that
need to interpret terminal escape sequences.
This library is very similar to libvte of the gnome project. However, libvte is
highly bound to GTK+, which makes it unsuitable for non-graphics projects that
need to parse escape sequences. Instead, TSM tries to restrict its API to
terminal emulation only. Furthermore, TSM does not try to establish a new
terminal emulation standard, but instead keeps compatibility as close to xterm
as possible. This is why the TERM variable can be set to xterm-color256 with
any TSM based terminal emulator.
WWW: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/kmscon/libtsm/