Fork pseudoterminals in Node.JS
This is the initial v1.0 release.
See the PR list including all changes below, the latest API is available here.
IPty.pause(), IPty.resume() APIs to pause and resume the socket respectively (#452) via @meganrogge, this can be used to implement flow control by blocking the process outputstring | string[] (#396) via @Tyriarpty.onData(d => console.log(d));
pty.onExit(e => console.log(e.exitCode, e.signal));
cols and rows are now exposed on IPty (#290) via @Tyriar
console.log(pty.cols, pty.rows)
experimental from name (#365) via @Tyriar
// before
const pty = spawn(file, args, { experimentalUseConpty: true });
// after
const pty = spawn(file, args, { useConpty: true });
PSEUDOCONSOLE_INHERIT_CURSOR conpty flag with IWindowsPtyForkOptions.conptyInheritCursor (#309) via @Tyriarnull as encoding to use raw buffers (#273, #362) via @anszom, @Tyriarreadonly (#308) via @Tyriar/usr/*/lib under libraries (#343) via @deepak1556VWERASE/VDISCARD are named differently (#358) via @ThePrezon event format is now deprecated and will be removed in v1 (#283) via @Tyriar
// deprecated
pty.on('data', d => console.log(d));
// recommended
pty.onData(d => console.log(d));
Added support on Windows 10 to use the Windows ConPTY API (#236) via @Tyriar, @zadjii-msft. This will be enabled by default if you're on Windows 10 build number 17692+. This is expected to fix many issues on Windows, probably most notably #7 and Microsoft/vscode#57803.
It can be disabled using experimentalUseConpty:
nodePty.spawn(file, args, {
experimentalUseConpty: false
});