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commit a7fb33098d49497e24784da51acafa9c5c612528
parent e2e185c58ffc3cfaa56f0eb03a8855c408b835b2
Author: Hiltjo Posthuma <hiltjo@codemadness.org>
Date:   Fri,  8 Apr 2022 12:40:41 +0200

st page: some tweaks

Remove the ugly logo. Reword some sections.

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Mst.suckless.org/index.md | 11++++-------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/st.suckless.org/index.md b/st.suckless.org/index.md @@ -1,24 +1,21 @@ -![st](st.svg) - st is a simple terminal implementation for X. [![Screenshot of dwm & st](screenshots/frign-2016-s.png)](screenshots/frign-2016.png) Motivation ---------- -xterm is bloated and unmaintainable. Here's an excerpt from the README: +Here's an excerpt from 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. -Needless to say things have *not* changed, it's still ugly. It has over 65K -lines of code and emulates obscure and obsolete terminals you will [never -need](http://www.science.uva.nl/museum/tek4014.php). +It has over 65K lines of code and emulates obscure and obsolete terminals you +will [never need](http://www.science.uva.nl/museum/tek4014.php). The popular alternative, rxvt has *only* 32K lines of code. This is just too much for something as simple as a terminal emulator; it's yet another example