On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 05:53:08PM +0100, Joerg Zinke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> please find below an update for x11/st to version 0.3.
> 
> >From the suckless announcement, the biggest changes are:
>         * New drawing code, which is way more faster and comparable to the
>           other terminals out there.
>         * Many new escape sequences are supported:
>                 * setting the title
>                 * LNM, KAM, SI, SO, SUB, CAN, DA, DECID. OSC, DSC, PM, APC,
>                   CHT, HTS, CBT, SM, RM, standout mode ???  (See st.info.)
>         * Linedrawing is now supported
>         * Xft and Fontcache is now used to draw fonts.
>         * support for italic and bold italic font drawing
>         * Some more commandline parameters are available. (See manpage.)
>                 * easy debugging with: st -o - | cat -v
>         * nyancat(1) works.
>         * external support of utmp entries by using utmp(1)[1]
> 
> Comments and OKs?

They've made significant progress, nice to see. Minor comments:

* It would be nice of the man page indicated how how to change the font
  name AND size: st -f "Anonymous Pro:pixelsize=20"
* Perhaps remove -Os from the CFLAGS

More significantly, characters > 127 aren't rendered. st doesn't appear
to have this problem on Linux.

Eric

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