ConPTY Support on Windows

[Stanzilla]

Hey there, in prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit#723 you hinted that support for ConPTY on Windows might be coming, are there any updates on this?

[jonathanslenders]

Hi @Stanzilla,

No updates on that yet. I'm busy updating ptterm for prompt_toolkit 3.0. That's mostly finished, except for the Windows support. Maybe I should look into ConPTY and not bother fixing the winpty code. (If you want to contribute, see if you can create a PR to that branch.)

[Stanzilla]

Sadly won't have time to contribute but it looks like winpty is pretty dead anyway so it might be time to move on. Appreciate your work!

[szevzol]

I just did a quick search and found https://github.com/andfoy/pywinpty. Maybe it can replace winpty?

[jonathanslenders]

For recent Windows versions, winpty should no longer be needed. (that's since a couple of years now).

ptterm should be rewritten to take advantage of the newer Win32 syscalls. (like SetConsoleMode). Unfortunately, I don't have time for this...

[szevzol]

I'm researching the topic e.g. here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/console-reference

A python wrapper class that provides the same functions for ptterm as the backends and under the hood calls Console API functions would be the way to go, right?