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Mitchell Hashimoto 1fcd80daab libghostty: add cpp-vt-stream example and fix C++ header compatibility
Add a cpp-vt-stream example that verifies libghostty headers compile
cleanly in C++ mode. The example is a simplified C++ port of
c-vt-stream.

The headers used the C idiom `typedef struct Foo* Foo` for opaque
handles, which is invalid in C++ because struct tags and typedefs
share the same namespace. Fix all 12 opaque handle typedefs across the
headers to use a distinct struct tag with an Impl suffix, e.g.
`typedef struct GhosttyTerminalImpl* GhosttyTerminal`. This is a
source-compatible change for existing C consumers since the struct
tags were never referenced directly.
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Example: VT Stream Processing in C++

This contains a simple example of how to use ghostty_terminal_vt_write to parse and process VT sequences in C++. This is a simplified C++ port of the c-vt-stream example that verifies libghostty compiles in C++ mode.

Important

libghostty is a C library. This example is only here so our CI verifies that the library can be built in used from C++ files.

Usage

Run the program:

zig build run