Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt

> Status: Early prototype. Fully vibe coded. [...]

Cool project... However, the terminal is where you enter passwords, ssh, set API keys etc. Something so sensitive should not be "Fully vibe coded".

For a project like this, I would expect to see a clarification which might read something like this: "Fully vibe coded, but I audited each and every line of generated code and I am already a domain expert in vt sequences and emacs so I know this program should be OK." But given that I did NOT see a clarification or statement like this, it becomes very difficult to trust a project like this.

Again, it is a cool idea.

I love to see new Emacs Lisp projects, BUT: personally I prefer a simple ‘pure Emacs standard library’ experience as much as possible. I have been using Emacs over 40 years and this return to simplicity is a new thing for me.

I used to have a Xerox Lisp Machine in the 1980s and dreamed to have Emacs be the ‘catch all’ environment like a Lisp Machine. Now I mostly just use Emacs to edit code.

I wonder if I'll ever see the day when Emacs's several terminal implementations are unified. How nice would it be if one could use term.el with libvterm, libghostty etc. as a backend?

On another note, as a light terminal user, I've had great success with MisTTY. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/szermatt/mistty

I understand the need of terminal emulator for certain interactive programs, but inside Emacs I just use 'shell-command and output buffers. What's the benefit of having a terminal emulator inside the Emacs process? If the program is interactive (TUI) it won't integrate well with Emacs buffers/keybindings anyway right?

What do you know, wishes sometimes come true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45351060.

So the Emacs OS has a terminal? This means I can finally run vim in it.