> Like I said in my talk, xterm alone is 80 000 LOC!
and xterm is just a small compoment in the X window system.
The X window system is *huge*, it is giant monolith sitting at around one
million lines of code. XTerm is also one of the worst programs made for X, its
config is awkward (like every program configured from X Resources), it is
unnecessarily big, supports stuff nobody cares about (e.g., blinking text and
TEK4014 terminal) and is extremely weird to use (Alt-Shift-C is the keybind for
copying, to the PRIMARY clipboard!). Look at the readme:
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here
This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution. It was one of
the first "serious" programs ported, and still has a lot of historical baggage.
Ideally, there would be a general tty widget and then vt102 and tek4014
subwidgets so that they could be used in other programs. We are trying to
clean things up as we go, but there is still a lot of work to do.
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