revery-terminal

A terminal emulator built with Revery.

This is a barebones terminal emulator factored out from the work to include a terminal emulator in Onivim 2.

It's also a fun exploration in leveraging an Elm-style architecture in a natively compiled application.

Pre-requisites

• Make sure to install the dependencies needed for Revery
• OSX: You'll also need glibtool (brew install libtool)

Building

• npm install -g esy@0.6.2
• esy install
• esy build

Running

• esy run

Limitations

This is just meant as an exploration, and isn't production-ready. In particular, there are some pieces missing:

• No Unicode support at the moment - assumes ASCII rendering
• No ligatures or text shaping
• No Windows support at the moment - we use the openpty API which is not available on Windows
• Minimal keys are handled

These would all be great contribution opportunities, though!

Source Overview

Main modules

• src/bin/App.re - this is the entry point for the application (where we start the window, wire up our store).
• src/bin/Model.re - this is the heart of our application - that provides the definition of Model.t as well as how it changes over time (by providing an updater function).

Supporting modules

• src/lib/ReveryTerminal.rei - contains cross-platform utilities for working with a terminal.
• src/pty - small OCaml binding to the openpty system call, to create a pseudoterminal.

Technologies Used

• Revery to provide the window management and drawing functionality.
• reason-libvterm bindings for libvterm
• isolinear as an Elm-like applicatiion management framework.

We also use the JetBrains Mono font.

License

MIT