Re: [Gtk2hs-devel] Question about VTE library.

[Axel S. <Axe...@en...>]

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 16:53 +0800, Andy Stewart wrote:
> >
> > Maybe I don't quite understand what VTE is about, but if it's just a
> > terminal widget, then you can't modify it's state. So I don't think
> > there is a need to split the widget into a model and a view.
> Furthermore
> > if that is ever done, then the people maintaining VTE should use
> Gtk's
> > TextBuffer model, I don't think it's feasible to try to simulate
> that
> > VTE uses, say, TextBuffer to store its content.
> Think about this, you want study some command from Man page, you can
> split terminal window with two view, one view scroll for view command
> in
> Man page, and another view is run command and check command output.
> And those two views contain same data, just display different part for
> compare.
> 

But that sounds more like you're running two terminals. That is quite
different from having two views on the same terminal. In fact, if you
want two views of the same terminal, you should probably re-implement
VTE simply as an instance of TextBuffer. Then you can use TextView to
show as many views onto the same terminal as you want.

Axel.