[enhancement] - Don't clear terminal on resize

[drewbaker]

Hey Jakob,

It would be great to be able to set resize:false, and have the terminal not clear it's contents on resize.

I'm loading in content to the divs created by an empty echo using PJAX, and they get cleared by resize function.

Thanks,
Drew

[jcubic]

Can you show code (or demo) where you use the terminal? And what is PJAX?

[drewbaker]

Hey Jakob,

Sorry to lag on this! I built you a demo of PJAX working with terminal, but it clears when you resize the window.
http://labs.funkhausdesign.com/examples/terminal/terminal_pjax.html

PJAX is this:
https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

It's a great way of using HTML5 pushState tech to have no page loads, but have deep linkable URL's.

If you send me your email address, I can show you the development site that I have this tech working on for one of our clients. It's a super advanced version of Terminal using PJAX. My email is drew@funkhaus.us.

Thanks!

[jcubic]

You're not using terminal and Pjax as it should be used. As for terminal use api provided. As for History API I sugest differnt library that alow for callbacks. Also in your code you don't have full change on back button only url and image change the command entered stay the same.

In order to have proper state you need to use export_view / import_view functions. Here is the code I've came up with (that use HTML5-History-API library which is just a polyfill so it use raw HistoryAPI)

$(function() {
    var save_state = [];
    var terminal = $('#term').terminal(function(command, term) {
        var cmd = $.terminal.splitCommand(command);
        if (cmd.name == 'open') {
            term.pause();
            $.get(cmd.args[0], function(result) {
                term.echo(result, {raw:true}).resume();
                save_state.push(term.export_view());
                history.pushState(save_state.length-1, null, cmd.args[0]);
            }, 'text');
        } else {
            // store all other commands
            save_state.push(term.export_view());
            history.pushState(save_state.length-1, null, '/' + cmd.name + '/' + cmd.args.join('/'));
        }
    });
    save_state.push(terminal.export_view());
    $(window).on('popstate', function(e) {
        if (save_state.length) {
            terminal.import_view(save_state[history.state || 0]);
        }
    });
    $('.links a').click(function(e) {
        terminal.exec('open "' + $(this).attr('href') + '"');
        return false;
    });
});

save_state store exported view of the terminal and index in history.state. If history.state is null it mean that it's first page so code can grab 0 index (that exported after terminal creation).
The above command store in History API all commands that you type into the terminal. (I think that I put that code on examples).

[jcubic]

I can add this to the terminal, it can store state just before next command be executed and it can store urls based on user function:

$('...').terminal(function(cmd, term) {
}, {
   historyState: true,
   historyStateUrlMapper: function(command) {
       // whatever that function return, will be stored as url, default will be
       // default can be "real url" + command.replace(/\s+/g, '/');
       // if the value is null the url will not be stored, so it will act as filter.
   }
});

So your code in this case will be just:

$('...').terminal({
    open: function(url) {
        var self = this.pause();
        $.get(url, function(result) {
            self.echo(result, {raw:true}).resume();
        }, 'text');
    }
}, {
   historyState: true,
   historyStateUrlMapper: function(command) {
       if (command.match(/^open/)) {
           return command.replace(/^[^\s]+\s*/, '');
       }
   }
});

[drewbaker]

That second historyState code is great. I can see that being very useful. I will look into using that. Are you going to bake that into the main Terminal code, or is this just for my use case?

But is it possible to somehow disable Terminal from clearing all content on resize? Even just point me to the right place in the code, so I can hack it for my needs right now.

I agree that PJAX isn't great, I do wish it had proper callbacks and could return data, rather than forcing it to go to a selector.

Thanks!

[jcubic]

I can make that historyState into terminal 0.9, nice feature, I don't have much features to add to new version of terminal.

to disable clear in the terminal you need to comment out that line:
https://github.com/jcubic/jquery.terminal/blob/master/js/jquery.terminal-src.js#L3815
it will never redraw terminal, but you will not have line wrapping. Clear is used to draw lines (proper lines that was echo using echo function) again.

[drewbaker]

Hey Jakob,

Any ideas on when you might release 0.9? I want to start using this History feature on our project.

Thanks!
Drew

[jcubic]

I can add that history feature when I find some time, and then you will be able to grab it from devel branch.

[jcubic]

I've added the feature to devel branch.

[drewbaker]

Hey Jakob,

I've been using this, and it's great! Quick question:

Say I echo some HTML via AJAX like you have above. Let's say its a grid of thumbnail images, and set the state via your new feature.

Next, I click on the thumbnail, and via AJAX I replace that thumbnail with a video. How do you recommend I deal with that state change? I can't echo out a new command, because I want that video to replace the image, not echo onto a new line.

Currently I'm just setting that history.pushState() manually on click, but I was wondering if I could do it smarter through this new Terminal feature you added?

Thanks again! This is a great plugin!

[jcubic]

You don't do that with terminal. Maybe I can pushState on import_view and add flag that will prevent that to that function so popstate will be able to use import without pushing state.

Do you use import/export to change image to video? Because that is the only way to change lines dynamically that will keep terminal internal state.

[drewbaker]

I don't currently use import/export. I didn't think that would let me dynamically change part of a page?

[jcubic]

Export give you access to internal array of lines, that are redraw on refresh. I can prepare demo how to modify lines.

[drewbaker]

Thanks! It would be great to see an example of export, change content, then import it back into view.