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59 changes: 44 additions & 15 deletions src/terminals.md
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Expand Up @@ -4,19 +4,39 @@ While you should be able to use __iamb__ in any terminal with reasonable UTF-8
support, if you want to be able to see images in room history or use keypresses
like `<S-Enter>`, you might find this table useful:

| Terminal | Operating Systems | Images | Extended Keypresses |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | -------------------------- | ------------------- |
| [alacritty] | FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows | N | Y[^note-kitty-keys] |
| [ConEmu] | Windows | N[^note-conemu] | Y[^note-win-keys] |
| [foot] | FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD | Y[^note-sixel] | Y[^note-kitty-keys] |
| [gnome-terminal] | FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD | N | N[^note-gnome-term] |
| [iTerm2] | macOS | Y[^note-iterm2-img] | N |
| [kitty] | FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD | Y[^note-kitty-img-new] | Y[^note-kitty-keys] |
| [konsole] | FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD | Y[^note-sixel] | N[^note-konsole] |
| [mlterm] | FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD | Y[^note-sixel] | N |
| [rio] | FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows | Y[^note-iterm2-img] | Y[^note-kitty-keys] |
| [wezterm] | FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows | Y[^note-iterm2-img] | Y[^note-kitty-keys] |
| [Windows Terminal]| Windows | Y[^note-sixel] | Y[^note-win-keys] |
| Terminal | Operating Systems | Images | Extended Keypresses |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------- | -------------------------- | ------------------- |
| [alacritty][^license-mit] | FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows | N | Y[^note-kitty-keys] |
| [ConEmu][^license-bsd3] | Windows | N[^note-conemu] | Y[^note-win-keys] |
| [contour][^license-apache] | FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, Windows | Y[^note-sixel] | N |
| [foot][^license-mit] | FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD | Y[^note-sixel] | Y[^note-kitty-keys] |
| [ghostty][^license-mit] | Linux, macOS | Y[^note-kitty-img-new] | Y[^note-kitty-keys] |
| [gnome-terminal][^license-gpl3] | FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD | N | N[^note-gnome-term] |
| [iTerm2][^license-gpl2] | macOS | Y[^note-iterm2-img] | N |
| [kitty][^license-gpl3] | FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD | Y[^note-kitty-img-new] | Y[^note-kitty-keys] |
| [konsole][^license-gpl2] | FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD | Y[^note-sixel] | N[^note-konsole] |
| [mlterm][^license-bsd3] | FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD | Y[^note-sixel] | N |
| [rio][^license-mit] | FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows | Y[^note-iterm2-img] | Y[^note-kitty-keys] |
| [wezterm][^license-mit] | FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows | Y[^note-iterm2-img] | Y[^note-kitty-keys] |
| [Windows Terminal][^license-mit]| Windows | Y[^note-sixel] | Y[^note-win-keys] |

<style>
table {
width: 100%;
}
table th:first-of-type {
width: 25%;
}
table th:nth-of-type(2) {
width: 35%;
}
table th:nth-of-type(3) {
width: 20%;
}
table th:nth-of-type(4) {
width: 20%;
}
</style>

[^note-kitty-keys]: Uses Kitty enhanced keyboard protocol

Expand All @@ -34,15 +54,24 @@ like `<S-Enter>`, you might find this table useful:

[^note-konsole]: See [konsole tracking issue](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435975)

[^license-apache]: Open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license
[^license-bsd3]: Open sourced under a BSD 3-Clause license
[^license-gpl2]: Open sourced under the GNU Public License version 2
[^license-gpl3]: Open sourced under the GNU Public License version 3
[^license-mit]: Open sourced under the MIT license


[alacritty]: https://alacritty.org/
[ConEmu]: https://conemu.github.io/
[contour]: https://contour-terminal.org/
[foot]: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
[gnome-terminal]: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-terminal/stable/
[ghostty]: https://ghostty.org/
[iTerm2]: https://iterm2.com/
[kitty]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
[konsole]: https://konsole.kde.org/
[mlterm]: https://mlterm.sourceforge.net/
[rio]: https://raphamorim.io/rio/
[sixel]: https://www.arewesixelyet.com/
[wezterm]: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html
[Windows Terminal]: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n0dx20hk701
[wezterm]: https://wezterm.org/
[Windows Terminal]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/
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