Would love windows support...

[mrcaron]

Perhaps using something like this... https://github.com/rschmitt/heatseeker/blob/master/src/screen/windows.rs

[patrickisgreene]

This is blocked by ticki/termion#103

[prabirshrestha]

There is a termion PR for support for windows but it hasn't moved. https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion/merge_requests/151. I was able to compile xi-term to windows using it.

• In Cargo.toml update the termion to use this instead and delete Cargo.lock file

diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6e7a89c..77f95db 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ failure = "0.1.1"
 futures = "0.1.18"
 log = "0.4.1"
 log4rs = "0.8.0"
-termion = "1.5.1"
+termion = { git = "https://gitlab.redox-os.org/Jezza/termion", branch = "windows-support" }
 tokio = "0.1.7"
 xdg = "2.1.0"
 indexmap = "1.0.1"

• Then update src/core/tui.rs

index 224032a..a4e1b76 100644
--- a/src/core/tui.rs
+++ b/src/core/tui.rs
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ use xrl::{
 };

 use failure::Error;
-use xdg::BaseDirectories;

 use core::{Command, Terminal, TerminalEvent};
 use widgets::{CommandPrompt, Editor};
@@ -26,11 +25,8 @@ pub struct Tui {

 impl Tui {
     pub fn new(mut client: Client, events: UnboundedReceiver<CoreEvent>) -> Result<Self, Error> {
-        let conf_dir = BaseDirectories::with_prefix("xi")
-            .ok()
-            .and_then(|dirs| Some(dirs.get_config_home().to_string_lossy().into_owned()));
         run(client
-            .client_started(conf_dir.as_ref().map(|dir| &**dir), None)
+            .client_started(Some("d:\\tmp"), None)
             .map_err(|_| ())
         );

Seems like xdg should be optional for windows builds.

It seems like the first step to get it working properly would be to have the termion PR merge to master.