The Terminal feature lacked documentation describing its architecture, usage patterns, and integration points with other platform components.

Changes

• Architecture Documentation: Documents all 7 bundles (control, view.core, view.ui, local, process, ssh, telnet) with key features, APIs, and extension points

• Platform Integration: Documents usage in Debug framework (org.eclipse.debug.terminal) including PTY process factories, exec factories, and Console view integration; documents CDT utilities dependency for platform-specific PTY support

• Extensibility Guide: Provides implementation examples for custom connectors and launcher delegates with extension point registration

Extension Point Example:

<extension point="org.eclipse.terminal.control.connectors">
  <connector
      class="com.example.MyTerminalConnector"
      id="com.example.myconnector"
      name="My Custom Connector"/>
</extension>

Programmatic API Example:

ITerminalService terminalService = // obtain via OSGi service
Map<String, Object> properties = new HashMap<>();
properties.put(ITerminalsConnectorConstants.PROP_TERMINAL_CONNECTOR_ID, 
               "org.eclipse.terminal.connector.local.LocalConnector");
terminalService.openConsole(properties);

File Added

terminal/README.md (365 lines) - Comprehensive documentation covering terminal emulation capabilities, connector implementations, build/test instructions, and contribution guidelines.

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