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Boo – screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty

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Boo is a GNU screen-style terminal multiplexer built in Zig on top of Ghostty's libghostty-vt terminal emulation core. Unlike screen's aging emulator, boo parses every session's output through Ghostty's modern VT engine, enabling faithful redraws, answered terminal queries while detached, and agent-friendly automation via send, peek, and wait commands — no TTY required.

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