c# - SSH.NET based colored terminal emulator

Question

I'm using SSH.NET to create my terminal application for UWP.

For now, I've been able to send/receive data with the library, but I would like to do something like the PuTTY application, that shows the text with different colors, or even being able to edit files with the Linux vi editor.

Is there a way to get color / position information with this library?

Answer 1

When implementing a terminal emulation, you primarily have to process ANSI escape codes sent by the server.

There's no support for that in SSH.NET or .NET Framework.

Implementing it on your own is a huge task. PuTTY implementation of the terminal emulation, terminal.c, has over 7000 lines of code. And that's only a processing part, a drawing is separate.

Quick google search for "c# terminal emulation" results in:
https://github.com/munificent/malison-dotnet
(though I have no experience with this library)

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The only part of this on SSH.NET side, is to request terminal emulation by using an overload of SshClient.CreateShell that takes terminalName argument (and its companions).