Source code here https://github.com/teln0/termui
Hello everyone 
I'm trying to create a terminal emulator inside a terminal (maybe you saw my reddit post ?). For now I managed to run a bash inside a pseudoterminal, and communicate with it through a file descriptor. Everything works fine, except for when I reach the end of a line in my pseudoterminal, the cursor kinda glitches out "loops" on the current line (in a very weird way). So my first though was : maybe I my terminal emulator didn't support some escape sequence that bash used when reaching the end of the line ? I'm using the vte crate to parse output from the terminal, so I though I just needed to write the correct handlers. But then I have a few problems.
1st : I can't seem to understand the difference between
- execute( &mut self, byte: u8)
- csi_dispatch( &mut self, params: &[i64], intermediates: &[u8], ignore: bool, action: char) btw I don't know what intermediates is.
- esc_dispatch(&mut self, intermediates: &[u8], ignore: bool, byte: u8) still don't know what intermediates is.
from here vte::Perform - Rust
I know Csi stands for Control Sequence Introducer and Esc for Escape, and that control sequences are kind of a subset of escape sequences (ANSI escape code - Wikipedia).
2nd : When bash reaches the end of a line, I know :
- execute( &mut self, byte: u8) is called with byte as :
- '\r' : ok, I go back to the beginning of the line
- '\n' : ok, I add 1 to the y cursor
- esc_dispatch(&mut self, intermediates: &[u8], ignore: bool, byte: u8) is called with byte as 60 (corresponding char is '<'). I have no idea what does '<' correspond to and what to do, but I think the problem lies here.
So the main question is : what does bash do when it reaches an end of line, and how should I react to it ?
Can anyone help me ? I've been stuck on this for a whole day now !