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README.md |
Wez's Terminal
A terminal emulator implemented in Rust.
Quickstart
- Install
rustup
to get the nightlyrust
compiler installed on your system. https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/install.html - Build in release mode:
cargo build --release
- Run it via either
cargo run --release
ortarget/release/wezterm
You will need a collection of support libraries; important to note is that
your harfbuzz
library must have support for hb_ft_font_create_referenced
;
older linux distributions don't have this!
$ sudo apt-get install -y libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev \
libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-keysyms1-dev libharfbuzz-dev \
libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev
What?
Here's what I'm shooting for:
- A terminal escape sequence parser
- A model of a terminal screen + scrollback that is OS independent
- Textual and GUI rendering of the model
- A differential protocol for the model
This would manifest as a common core that could run as both a textual terminal multiplexer and a gui terminal emulator, where the GUI part could automatically provide a native UI around the remotely multiplexed terminal session.
Status / Features
These are in the done/doing soon category:
- Runs on Linux with XCB
- Scrollback (use mouse wheel and Shift Page{Up|Down})
- True Color support
- Color Emoji and font fallback
- Paste selection via Shift-Insert
- xterm style selection of text with mouse
- Configuration file to specify fonts and colors (in progress)
- Render underline, italic, bold, strikethrough
- Command line argument parsing instead of launching user shell
There's a good number of terminal escape sequences that are not yet implemented and that will get fleshed out as the applications I use uncover them. Similarly for key mappings.
Things that I'd like to see happen and that have no immediate priority (contributions to get closer to these are welcomed!)
- Runs on macOS
- Tabs
- Textual renderer. Think
tmux
orscreen
. - Runs on Windows
Configuration
wezterm
will look for a TOML configuration file in $HOME/.config/wezterm/wezterm.toml
,
and then in $HOME/.wezterm.toml
.
Configuration is currently very simple and the format is considered unstable and subject
to change. The code for configuration can be found in src/config.rs
.
I use the following in my ~/.wezterm.toml
:
font_size = 10
font = { fontconfig_pattern = "Operator Mono SSm Lig" }
[[font_rules]]
italic = true
font = { fontconfig_pattern = "Operator Mono SSm Lig:style=Italic" }
The default configuration will attempt to use whichever font is returned from
fontconfig when monospace
is requested.