SwiftTerm

SwiftTerm

SwiftTerm is a VT100/Xterm terminal emulator for Swift, the engine is intended to be agnostic from potential front-ends and backends (for example an AppKit front-end, a UIKit front-end, a TermKit front-end and so on; and backends to directly spawn a child shell, or connect it to a remote session).

This is a work-in-progress, and a port of XtermSharp, which was itself based on xterm.js.

The terminal itself does not deal with connecting the data to to a process or a remote server. Data is sent to the terminal by passing a byte array with data to the "Feed" method.

Convenience classes exist to spawn a subprocess and connecting the terminal to a local process, and allow some customization of the environment variables to pass to the child.

Status

Validated and up to date with XtermSharp:

• Buffer
• BufferSet
• CharData
• CharSet
• TerminalOptions
• BufferLine
• CircularList
• EscapeSequenceParser
• EscapeSequences
• Colors
• Reflows*
• Terminal - I am merging this an InputHandler, which I always hated being split

Pending:

• InputHandler
• Pty
• SelectionService
• RuneExt

MacView:

• autoScrollTimer.Elapsed += AutoScrollTimer_Elapsed;
• accessibilityService
• selectionView
• searchService

Desired:

• CharData.attribute should not be an Int32, should be a strong type
• Should replace repetitive code for cmdXXX to get the default out of [pars]

Against version: 57cf109188 from Feb 27, 2020

Features