/black-screen

A terminal emulator for the 21st century.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

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What is it?

Black Screen is a modern terminal emulator based on Electron and exploiting capabilities of contemporary interfaces in contrast to most of the terminal emulators.

Technologies

  • Electron
  • TypeScript
  • NodeJS
  • ReactJS
  • SASS

Installation

Note: Only OS X is currently supported, but we plan to make Black Screen work on all the major platforms.

Download
git clone https://github.com/shockone/black-screen
Install Dependencies
cd black-screen
npm run install-all
Start
npm start

Package

To create a standalone application, run:

npm run package

Test

TODO

  • Improve application packaging
  • VT100 compliant ANSI support.
  • Environment variables support.
  • Panes and tabs.
  • Man files parsing for better autocompletion.

Contributing

See contributing guide.

License

The MIT License.