Eternal Terminal

Re:Eternal Terminal by 0xb100db1ade on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @02:19PM (#21641624)

> Been waiting for a good replacement for tmux to come along for a while now that isn't just i3 > Does anyone else have a love hate relationship with tmux? > I hate its scrolling and buffer behavior, its almost impossible to get right.

I wasn't planning on sharing my project on HN until I've written up more documentation, but I'm actually working on exactly this problem.

https://github.com/aaronjanse/i3-tmux

So far I've got i3-like controls, resizing & scrolling terminal splits with the mouse, and better color support than tmux.

My current roadblock has been lack of motivation, but if *anyone& on HN finds this interesting (or even just files a bug report), I'd be motivated to reignite my work on the project.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Eternal Terminal by csdvrx on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @08:35PM (#21644542)

Funny, me too! I was adding some features yesterday, a few more today, but I took a few minutes to do screenshots and join the discussion.

If you are focused on better controls, our work may be complementary. Would you like to join forces on a high quality fork? A few things concern me with tmux currently.

Please read the following links and tell me whether you share these concerns: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/1019#issuecomment-318284... https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/1502#issuecomment-429710... https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/44#issuecomment-11975530... https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/1391#issuecomment-403267... Please tell me more about your color support issues, and check https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-testsuite to see if you can diagnose them more precisely

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Eternal Terminal by 0xb100db1ade on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @08:10PM (#21653841)

> If you are focused on better controls, our work may be complementary.

This is exactly what I'm doing!

> Would you like to join forces on a high quality fork? A few things concern me with tmux currently.

I would absolutely love to work together. Please contact the email in my github profile (@aaronjanse).

I'd be happy to state my feelings on each of those issues, but it seems like you have done more research than I have.

Would you mind including some of your thoughts in the email you send me?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Eternal Terminal by abcdef123xyz123 on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:31AM (#21646234)

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/1613 is a better reflection of my views on SIXEL, although I am coming round to the idea rather. It is not easy to do properly however, I am interested to see how your code works.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Eternal Terminal by abcdef123xyz on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @02:41PM (#21641861)

How is the colour support better?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Eternal Terminal by 0xb100db1ade on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @03:18PM (#21642240)

I don't have zsh setup on the OS I'm running currently, but a simple example is that the light-grey autocomplete text from zsh/oh-my-zsh shows up on i3-tmux but not tmux (at least at the time of writing).

I honestly don't remember the exact details, and maybe it's now fixed.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Eternal Terminal by abcdef123xyz on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @03:25PM (#21642318)

Most likely you are using the wrong TERM so tmux doesn't have the correct information about what colours your terminal supports.

[ Parent | on HN ]