TSM is a state machine for DEC VT100-VT520 compatible terminal emulators.
It tries to support all common standards while keeping compatibility to
existing emulators like xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole...

TSM itself does not provide any rendering nor window management. It is a
simple plain state machine without any external dependencies. It can be
used to implement terminal emulators, but also to implement other applications
that need to interpret terminal escape sequences.

This library is very similar to libvte of the gnome project. However,
libvte is highly bound to GTK+, which makes it unsuitable for non-graphics
projects that need to parse escape sequences. Instead, TSM tries to restrict
its API to terminal emulation only. Furthermore, TSM does not try to
establish a new terminal emulation standard, but instead keeps compatibility
as close to xterm as possible. This is why the TERM variable can be set to
xterm-color256 with any TSM based terminal emulator.

• Alexey Shabalin

• libtsm
• libtsm-debuginfo
• libtsm-devel