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      1 ![st](st.svg)
      2 
      3 st is a simple terminal implementation for X.
      4 
      5 [![Screenshot of dwm & st](screenshots/frign-2016-s.png)](screenshots/frign-2016.png)
      6 
      7 Motivation
      8 ----------
      9 Here's an excerpt from the xterm(1) README:
     10 
     11 > Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here
     12 > 
     13 > This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution. It was one of
     14 > the first "serious" programs ported, and still has a lot of historical baggage.
     15 > Ideally, there would be a general tty widget and then vt102 and tek4014
     16 > subwidgets so that they could be used in other programs.  We are trying to
     17 > clean things up as we go, but there is still a lot of work to do.
     18 
     19 It has over 65K lines of code and emulates obscure and obsolete terminals you
     20 will [never need](https://ub.fnwi.uva.nl/computermuseum//tek4014.html).
     21 
     22 The popular alternative, rxvt has *only* 32K lines of code. This is just too
     23 much for something as simple as a terminal emulator; it's yet another example
     24 of code complexity.
     25 
     26 Terminal emulation doesn't need to be so complex.
     27 
     28 Status
     29 ------
     30 Things that have already been implemented are:
     31 
     32 * most VT10X escape sequences
     33 * serial line support
     34 * XIM support
     35 * utmp via utmp(1)
     36 * clipboard handling
     37 * mouse and keyboard shortcuts (via config.h)
     38 * UTF-8
     39 * wide-character support
     40 * resize
     41 * 256 colors and [true colors](https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728)
     42 * antialiased fonts (using fontconfig)
     43 * fallback fonts
     44 * line drawing
     45 
     46 See the [goals](//st.suckless.org/goals) for more details and the
     47 [TODO](//git.suckless.org/st/plain/TODO) for what still needs to be
     48 implemented or fixed.
     49 
     50 Configuration
     51 -------------
     52 Configuration is done with `config.h`. Read the comments in the generated
     53 `config.h` to edit it according to your needs. Defaults are stored in
     54 `config.def.h`.
     55 
     56 FAQ
     57 ---
     58 The [FAQ](//git.suckless.org/st/plain/FAQ) is maintained in the st source code
     59 repository.
     60 
     61 Development
     62 -----------
     63 st is actively developed. You can [browse](//git.suckless.org/st) its source
     64 code repository or get a copy using git with the following command:
     65 
     66 	git clone https://git.suckless.org/st
     67 
     68 Download
     69 --------
     70 * [st 0.9.2](//dl.suckless.org/st/st-0.9.2.tar.gz) (48kb) (2024-04-05)
     71 * [LICENSE](//git.suckless.org/st/plain/LICENSE)
     72