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Hi folks,

It's been a long time without any news, but here's finally something fresh.
I overhauled some major components in the built-in terminal emulator, as the previous implementation started to show more and more issues over time.
Essentially the VT100 engine was re-written almost from scratch.
This time it's a much more solid codebase with a ton of test coverage, which will make gradual improvements much easier in the future.
It's hard to make a full list of changes, but that's something that comes to mind:

• Synchronisation between NC and shells should be much better now, it became two-way instead of one-way as before;
• Better support for [t]csh shells;
• Mouse support;
• More display features are supported now, e.g. bold/blinking/hidden characters;
• Colours handling should be more correct now;
• Character sets now do what expected;
• Support for bracketed pasting mode;
• Many previous glitches were fixed.

Generally this implementation should be much more conforming, it even contains ~30 cases from vttest in its test suite.
Obviously, with such drastic change something must have been missed out and/or implemented wrongly.

So I'd be really grateful for any feedback regarding the built-in terminal in this preview build:
https://magnumbytes.com/downloads/previ ... (3308).dmg

Thanks and stay safe!

I don't use the integrated terminal that much (only for quick actions every now and then), but just installed the preview and will let you know if anything weird comes up

Hi,

I'm found a strange behaviour with the preview version.

The terminal keep flashing.

Here a screen recording of what's happening:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/72lt8hagjvaps ... 5.mov?dl=0

Thank you
Massimiliano

Hi Massimiliano,

Thank you for the feedback.
Could you please provide me with the steps to reproduce the issue?

Regards,
Mike

Hi Mike,

I''m doing nothing special, it happen if I show the terminal with "alt cmd O" or if I uncover the terminal moving panels up with "alt opt up-arrow"

No problems here in Terminal with my setup:
Mac mini 2018 (core i5, 16GB RAM) with either Catalina o Big Sur. Dell Monitor U2410 connected via thunderbolt to display port adapter.
Carlos

Unfortunately, my experience is different from moonrak. The terminal does not work on BigSur macbook pro 2015 early. The terminal window appears but it's just black.

Hi lonelykid,
I couldn't reproduce the issue when terminal is not starting. Could you try the latest preview build and/or provide more details about your setup?

Hi Massimiliano,
Unfortunately I wasn't able to reproduce this issue either. Could you try the latest build and, if the issue persists, provide a terminal debug output as described in the #3441 topic?

mike wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 06, 2020 11:16 pm

Hi lonelykid,
I couldn't reproduce the issue when terminal is not starting. Could you try the latest preview build and/or provide more details about your setup?

Hi Mike,
I'm still getting exactly the same problem with your latest 1.29 RC -- Black window with a cursor, does not respond to any inputs. BTW terminal loading is also slow, with the spinning color wheel showing up. I can open iTerm2 almost instantly, so it's not hardware performance issue.