Last week I was complaining how complicated terminal emulation is, but it turns out the situation is much worse than I thought.
Here is the state diagram required to parse VT escape sequences robustly.
Something needs to be done. We need a new text-mode interface network protocol that is much, much simpler. Emulating VT100s in 2005 is nuts.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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