Uses fork of node-pty native code for forking pseudoterminals.
Uses libuv pipe handle to communicate with the child process.
- Paves the way for cross-platform (Linux, macOS and Windows) support.
- Renames Pseudoterminal to PTY (which is much easier to type and spell :D).
- Better performance than the old Pseudoterminal node. Especially when
streaming large amounts of data such as running the `yes` command.
- Allows setting custom file, args, initial window size, cwd, env vars
(including important ones such as TERM and COLORTERM) and uid/gid
on Linux and macOS.
- Returns process exit code and terminating signal.
- Use viewport as render target for terminal:
Terminal now only draws cells which changed since the last _draw() call.
A viewport is used with clear mode set to NEVER to cache previous draw
calls. The terminal node and viewport are wrapped by a GDScript Terminal
node which takes care of resizing the viewport scene, and forcing the
terminal to redraw all cells when necessary (i.e. on resize or theme
change).
Adds update_mode to terminal interface which can be set to one of:
- DISABLED: terminal will never be drawn
- AUTO: terminal will only draw the cells that changed, but
automatically redraw the full screen when necessary (for example,
when the size or theme changed).
- ALL: terminal will always draw every cell on every update. This is
the most reliable but least performant option.
- ALL_NEXT_FRAME: Will use update_mode ALL for the next _draw() call,
then change update_mode back to AUTO.
- Upgraded libtsm:
Includes changes from Fredrik Wikstrom (salass00)'s fork of libtsm.
- Don't require theme to be set.
Terminal will use default fonts/colors if no theme is set.
Most notably:
- Reflow is now working. Terminal size will fill the window and
cols/rows will be resized/calculated based on window and font size.
- Added support for different fonts (i.e. bold, italic, bolditalic).
- Enabled blinking characters.
- Adde more tests and caught a few subtle bugs.
- Removed renderer code (which was part of xterm.js) and just
doing naive rendering in terminal.gd, but it seems to perform
a lot faster.
Still not working completely:
- vim (some weirdness going on).
- vttest (more weirdness).
Todo:
- Fix the above.
- Draw the cursor!
- Improve performance. Performance is still not great. The terminal
becomes unusable when running `yes` or `cmatrix -r`.
Full codepoint tests will only be run if the RUN_FULL_CODEPOINT_TESTS
environment variable is set. This is set in the CI enviroment.
The tests take too long to run locally as part of regular test driven
development.
With the exception of text_decoder.gd the code in these files follows
the original so closely that it doesn't qualify as an original work
and so there is nothing new to copyright.
Instead, the original license text is kept with a note mentioning the
port to GDScript.
