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Ubuntu on Windows

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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.236s | source
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80x25 ◴[30 Mar 16 18:21 UTC] No.11391663[source]▶
"But there are some imperfections still, especially around tty's an the vt100. My beloved byobu, screen, and tmux don't quite work yet, but they're getting close!"

If they actually fix these imperfections, that would be fantastic. It would address a number issues that are "unfixable" in Cygwin flavors of utilities/apps.

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rspeer ◴[30 Mar 16 19:00 UTC] No.11391979[source]▶
It sounds like this would involve tweaking conhost.exe so that it understands all the vt100 sequences, as well as UTF-8. (I hope they wouldn't assume everyone's tmux setup uses only characters from codepage 437.)

If they did that, it would also fix the awfulness of Python's stdout on Windows!

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1. marshray ◴[31 Mar 16 00:26 UTC] No.11394129[source]▶
I was watching the stream and I think they said Windows console host will, in fact, directly support VT-100.