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		krat0sprakhar on Aug 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gotty – Share your terminal as a web application I can't read much of Go so can anyone explain how does this work at a high-level? The Vim editing example looks really cool! Does it keep taking a snapshot of the running command and send the data via a websocket?

JamesMcMinn on Aug 17, 2015 | [–]

https://github.com/yudai/gotty/blob/master/app/app.go#L73-L1...

^ Those are the key lines really.

It's running the command in a pseudo-terminal, capturing the output (as text) and sending it over a web socket.

scott_karana on Aug 17, 2015 | [–]

I doubt it takes snapshots, I suspect it just runs the program with a redirected and buffered stdin, stdout, and stderr.

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