Re: Strange OSX behavior

[Chris Page]

Please file bug reports and enhancement requests for Terminal. For example 
<https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/>.

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Chris Page
macOS Terminal

> On Jun 5, 2019, at 4:10 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> I can second that one.  The terminal emulation behavior for OS X terminal is 
> very incomplete.  Using the xterm they ship with their port of X works much, 
> much better.
> 
> From: Bug-ncurses <address@hidden> On Behalf Of Dan Gookin
> Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 6:52 PM
> To: Bryan Christ <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Strange OSX behavior
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> Bryan,
> 
> I have no idea what you’re reffing to, though I admire your technical 
> knowledge and pluck. Often I’ve found that running code on iTerm instead of 
> the OS X terminal application yields more predictable results. FWIW.
> 
> Best,
> DAN
> 
>> On Jun 5, 2019, at 3:41 PM, Bryan Christ 
>> <address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>> 
>> This is a bit off topic so forgive me but it's the only place I know where 
>> experts on the terminal live :) I've started porting my terminal emulation 
>> library to OSX and it's been fun to say the least. Now that it finally 
>> builds, I see strange behavior with my demo program that I don't see when it 
>> runs on Linux or FreeBSD. Output coming from XYZ application running inside 
>> the emulator is only echoed when I write data to the slave pty file 
>> descriptor (for example holding down the cursor key). If anyone has even a 
>> good guess as to what's going on, I would appreciate it.
>> 
>> --
>> Bryan
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