otter-vte is the reusable terminal rendering boundary. It depends on geometry and rendering, not a terminal application’s UI. Import otter_vte.command_list, ops, cell_glyphs, cell_renderer, renderer, or snapshot.
The cell renderer accepts explicit cell/selection/host interfaces and a borrowed draw context. It does not reach through arbitrary application pointers.
DynamicCommandList and Renderer are owned resources initialized with an allocator. Image-free terminal raster paths use renderer.no_images.
Lua
otter_vte_lua exposes otter.vte: glyph rectangles, powerline classification, batching checks, and bounded plugin-owned pixel canvases. These operations stay inside the process, so they require no capability. They do not create a terminal session or PTY.
Reference pages
Source reference
otr/otr.toml, otr/ in the component repository.