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+# Module Breakdown and Responsibilities
+
+## 1. src/pty.rs (The Shell Interface)
+
+Responsibilities:
+
+- Use portable-pty to create a new PTY.
+- Spawn a default shell process (e.g., bash) connected to the PTY.
+- Provide a way to write user input (from winit) to the PTY.
+- Provide a way to read shell output from the PTY.
+
+Key Implementation Detail: Reading from the PTY is a blocking operation. You
+should do this on a separate thread. This thread will read data and send it back
+to the main UI thread using a channel (like crossbeam-channel). This prevents
+the UI from freezing while waiting for the shell to output something.
+
+## 2. src/terminal.rs (The Brains / State Model)
+
+Responsibilities:
+
+- Hold the state of the terminal grid: a 2D array of cells, where each cell
+  contains a character, foreground color, background color, and style flags
+  (bold, italic, etc.).
+
+- Contain a vte::Parser.
+
+- Implement the vte::Perform trait. This is the core of this module. The vte
+  parser will call methods on your implementation as it processes the byte
+  stream from the PTY. For example:
+  - print(char): You update the character at the current cursor position in your
+    grid and advance the cursor.
+  - execute(byte): You handle control characters like newline (\n) or backspace
+    (\b).
+  - csi_dispatch(...): You handle complex ANSI escape sequences for changing
+    colors, moving the cursor, clearing the screen, etc.
+
+- Keep track of the cursor's position and the current color/style settings.
+
+## 3. src/renderer.rs (The Painter)
+
+Responsibilities:
+
+- Initialize wgpu: get an adapter and device, configure a surface on the winit
+  window.
+- Initialize glyphon: create a FontSystem, Cache, Atlas, and TextRenderer.
+- Contain the main render() function. This function will be called on every
+  frame.
+- Inside render():
+  - Get the current terminal state.
+  - Iterate through the terminal grid.
+  - For each line of text, create a glyphon::Buffer. Set its text content,
+    colors, and styles based on the data in your grid.
+  - Use the glyphon::TextRenderer to prepare and draw all the buffers to the
+    wgpu surface.
+  - Draw the cursor as a solid block or underline.
+
+## 4. src/main.rs (The Conductor)
+
+Responsibilities:
+
+- The main function.
+- Initialize logging (env_logger).
+- Create the winit event loop and window.
+- Initialize your Pty, Terminal, and Renderer modules.
+- Start the PTY reader thread.
+- Run the main event loop.
+
+### The Main Event Loop (winit::event_loop::run)
+
+This is where everything comes together. You'll have a match statement to handle
+different events:
+
+- Event::WindowEvent::Resized: Tell the renderer about the new size. You'll also
+  need to inform the PTY of the new dimensions so that applications running in
+  the shell (like vim) can reflow correctly.
+- Event::WindowEvent::KeyboardInput: Translate the keyboard event into
+  characters or escape sequences and write them to the pty module.
+- Event::UserEvent: This is how your PTY thread will communicate with the main
+  thread. When the PTY thread reads new data, it sends it through the channel,
+  and you receive it here. You then feed this data into the terminal.vte_parser.
+- Event::WindowEvent::RedrawRequested: This is the signal to render a new frame.
+  You call your renderer.render() function here. After processing PTY data, you
+  should always request a redraw.
+- Event::WindowEvent::CloseRequested: Terminate the application.