I mean I get that, but they could have just said we're no longer developing this, because we're tired or whatever. I just think it's interesting they made such a strong stand.
Make sure to scroll all the way down to comment #26 where the devs say:
> This bug is closed and this patch rejected […] Adding keyboard selection to vte will be done inside vte, see bug 78291 [1]
– a bug which is 19 (in words: nineteen) years old.
the laziness to find supposedly good libraries to work atop.
and his impatience at a resistant, inflexible library resulted in them warding others off againat similar folly.
a three virtues mini saga if I've heard of one,