Related project: Extraterm

[sedwards2009]

Hello,

I saw your comments on hacker News and found your side project here. You might be interested to know that I'm also working on a project related to improving life inside the shell. It's a terminal called Extraterm which aims to expand on the traditional idea of the terminal emulator with richer data display, better handling of text (more like a text editor at times) and also a much tighter integration with the shell. The main site is here: http://extraterm.org/ Don't forget to read the Features page and the from and show commands which allow for reuse of previous data as input to shell commands.

I see that you are experimenting with piping different data types like JSON and CSV between commands instead of just plain text/bytes. Adding direct support to Extraterm to display tabular data or tree structured data isn't outside the scope of my project.

I encourage you to brainstorm up a list of features, crazy or otherwise, that you would like to see supported on the terminal side. I can't promise anything, but I plan to make Extraterm extensible with a plugin system in the future. Having some kind of a wishlist from you would serve as great input to the design of this plugin system. I would love to see a modern shell which took advantage of a modern updated terminal.

cheers, Simon http://extraterm.org/

[lmorg]

Looks interesting, I'll have a play at some point this weekend and get back to you. I've been working on a framework within my shell to inline various media formats. Currently it just supports images via ANSI true colour blocks (so the image is pixelated) but it was the only way I found reliable across terminals. But the idea behind building a framework for rendering such content was so that I could add support for any terminal multiplexers that came along and offered rich formatting. So it shouldn't be too much work to add in support for your terminal's for the richer content.

[lmorg]

Thank you for the thought but I'm going to close this ticket for now because after living with murex for a few months I think my focus needs to shift back to core functionality with the nice to have advanced handling of documents being sidelined - for now.