On Thu, Apr 11, 2013, at 10:59, Max DeLiso wrote: My aim is to create a minimalist terminal emulator for windows. I want a project whose relationship to the cmd/conhost/csrss triad is analogous to the relationship between st and xterm/x. I'm going to try and lift out of st all of the platform agnostic bits which I am able to, and generally use it as a reference for terminal emulation routines.
If it doesn't work _with_ the "cmd/conhost/csrss triad", what programs are going to run in it? Cygwin, I suppose. The problem, in general, with unix-ish terminal emulators on windows is they don't work with applications designed to run in the console.