Re: Terminal Emulator

Am 14.05.24 um 19:44 schrieb Gordinator via Python-list:

I wish to write a terminal emulator in Python. I am a fairly competent Python user, and I wish to try a new project idea. What references can I use when writing my terminal emulator? I wish for it to be a true terminal emulator as well, not just a Tk text widget or something like that.
 If you have any advice, please do let me know!

Not sure, what you mean with:

true terminal emulator as well, not just a Tk text widget or something like that

If you want to write a GUI terminal, than that *is* a terminal emulator and *has* a text widget as its visible core. If you want to write something like getty which runs on the virtual terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F*) than that is a terminal (not a terminal emulator).
In both cases, you write something that gets input from the keyboard, processes it and shows the result. How that processing is done, depends on the terminal standard, like DEC VT{100, 102, 220, 320, etc}.
For a start, you might want to look at Terminator, which is a terminal emulator written in Python, Gtk and libvte (which does all the low level stuff).