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Terminal emulator from scratch.

I wanna write a terminal emulator program from scratch. I downloaded the sources of xterm but they are too complex...
I did not found any documentation on the Internet, so I asking you where I have to start.

I learnt only C, and I have the basics of GTK library.

Thanks for any reply.

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libvte

libvte(3)							   User Commands							 libvte(3)

NAME

       libvte - Virtual Terminal Emulator library

DESCRIPTION

       libvte provides a terminal emulator control for GTK+.

       To access the API documentation, you must install the developer version of the package.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/lib/libvte.so	       Virtual Terminal Emulator shared library

       /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/vte     Location of developer documentation

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-terminal	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-terminal(1), vte(1), attributes(5), gnome-interfaces(5)

NOTES

       Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004, 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    7 Sep 2004								 libvte(3)