Ref tests use a recording of the terminal protocol and a serialization
of the grid state to check that the parsing and action handling systems
produce the correct result. Ref tests may be recorded by running
alacritty with `--ref-test` and closing the terminal by using the window
"X" button. At that point, the recording is fully written to disk, and a
serialization of important state is recorded. Those files should be
moved to an appropriate folder in the `tests/ref/` tree, and the
`ref_test!` macro invocation should be updated accordingly.
A couple of changes were necessary to make this work:
* Ref tests shouldn't create a pty; the pty was refactored out of the
`Term` type.
* Repeatable lines/cols were needed; on startup, the terminal is resized
* by default to 80x24 though that may be changed by passing
`--dimensions w h`.
* Calculating window size based on desired rows/columns and font metrics
required making load_font callable multiple times.
* Refactor types into library crate so they may be imported in an
integration test.
* A whole bunch of types needed symmetric serialization and
deserialization. Mostly this was just adding derives, but the custom
deserialization of Rgb had to change to a deserialize_with function.
This initially adds one ref test as a sanity check, and more will be
added in subsequent commits. This initial ref tests just starts the
terminal and runs `ll`.
The previous scrolling + scroll region implementation exhibited display
corruption bugs in several applications including tmux, irssi, htop, and
vim. The new implementation doesn't seem to suffer from any of those
issues.
This implementation is able to `find /usr` on my machine (nearly 600k
lines) in ~2.0 seconds while st is able to do the same in ~2.2 seconds.
Alacritty is officially faster!
Previous version of serde no longer worked; cargo packages were updated
as a result. `Zero` and `One` traits were deprecated. Use of those was
removed. The `Step` trait gained a lot more methods, and the index::$ty
implementations were updated.
The grid and term modules already rely on the index types, and ansi is
about to be updated with strongly typed APIs. Since Cursor, Line, and
Column are fundamental to the code in several modules, namespacing them
under one of them seems less correct than a module that stands by
itself.
Joe Wilm