Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Allow opening another TUI (e.g. text editor) temporarily before returning to watchbind #67

Closed
fritzrehde opened this issue Oct 30, 2023 · 2 comments · Fixed by #71
Closed
Assignees
Labels
enhancement New feature or request

Comments

@fritzrehde
Copy link
Owner

I find myself longing for this feature in several cases where I quickly want to make an edit to some file that I am displaying in watchbind, and then return to watchbind. It would be cool if one could temporarily disable watchbind's TUI painting, execute a graphical TUI (e.g. text editor like vim), and return to watchbind.

@fritzrehde
Copy link
Owner Author

The functionality is there now, but I would still like to implement one feature: A smooth transition from watchbind's TUI to the child TUI (e.g. text editor). Currently, watchbind's TUI is hidden, then the regular command-line, from which watchbind was called, is shown for a split second, and only then is the TUI of the child command (text editor) shown. It would be nicer if the split second showcase of the command-line could be eliminated.

@fritzrehde
Copy link
Owner Author

The smooth (no return to user's terminal before launching child TUI) between watchbind's TUI and the child TUI has been implemented now. However, what is still missing is a similarly smooth transition from the child's TUI to watchbind's TUI, once the child's TUI terminates. Progress on implementing this will be tracked in #72.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
enhancement New feature or request
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging a pull request may close this issue.

1 participant