Can you hook a full ncurses up to this?
Going by my input lag, it looks like all keypresses are sent to the server, can you implement readline somehow or can i configure SSH to buffer input locally? Cook terminal mode or something?
What's pty.go used for?
If i write a line that's longer than my terminal width, it wraps onto a second line, but new incoming messages obscure the first line
Yup! Any ncurses thing should work great. I couldn't find a golang curses lib that doesn't hardcode to stdout except for crypto/ssh/terminal, but it's fairly limited.
> Going by my input lag, it looks like all keypresses are sent to the server, can you implement readline somehow or can i configure SSH to buffer input locally? Cook terminal mode or something?
I believe that's up to your ssh client. There are things like https://mosh.mit.edu/ which try to mask the latency.
> What's pty.go used for?
For bootstrapping the pty request/response. :)
> If i write a line that's longer than my terminal width, it wraps onto a second line, but new incoming messages obscure the first line
Yea, there's a bug with long line reflow, not sure how to fix it. :(
ncurses is overkill nowadays when everything is a (VT100) emulator.
This is a bug we had in the hoon chat client on Urbit that has seen various iterations of fixed, not that this is at all helpful, because it is written in hoon it will probably seem like line noise even if I could bisect and show you the commits that fixed it for urbit... But if you want to come to chat on ~doznec, there are about half a dozen people who can translate hoon and probably can explain in plain English what the fix looks like.