Allow other programs using terminal to use ani-cli

[sgtoutlaw]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
There is a problem with trackma when it hooks ani-cli for play. It seems to keep opening and closing the episodes as it goes down the line until there are none left. I left a issue with them at

z411/trackma#637

Describe the solution you'd like
After trying to fix it for a while, I think I have come to the conclusion that when ani-cli tries to put up the after player launch menu, it tries to take over the terminal or something, and forces the current player to close?

Honestly I am a layman so I don't know the specifics, but originally I commented out your ending while loop at the end of the ani-cli script. This made it so that trackma seemed to work as intended but obviously now the menu after launching the player is gone if I use ani-cli alone.

Changed line 597 from
while : ; do
to
while [ -t 1 ] ; do

According to what I searched is supposed to check if ani-cli is active in the terminal, and then won't open the menu if it isn't.

There might be alternatives to this, and this might break something, but I don't know any programming so this is just me fiddling a little and seemed to fix my problem with trackma as well as allowed the menu to come up when directly using ani-cli.

I put this under feature request because technically this is causing an issue on trackma's end and there isn't anything wrong on your side.

[port19x]

This is a valid feature request, but since we'll deprecate -a in 3.4 anyway you're better off migrating to a non-interactive alternative

[port19x]

We do have trackma compatible titles, so I recommend just using the detection feature of trackma and viewing just through ani-cli.
That is a very common approach and better than your -a thing

[sgtoutlaw]

The combination allowing me to browse my anilist for watching shows and play it right there instead of switching over somewhere else to look at my anilist so I know what to search is much more convenient to me.

Also I don't know how to have trackma open as a service or anything so I don't have to worry about opening a terminal and throwing it in some far off workspace so it doesn't get in my way every time I have to reboot my computer.

Either way, I will try my best to keep mine working.

Thanks for looking and letting me know.

[justchokingaround]

https://github.com/justchokingaround/trackma-wrapper

[sgtoutlaw]

@justchokingaround that wrapper won't work with ani-cli with update 3.4 though will it?

[justchokingaround]

for your particular use case, that is watch anime from your list and update it accordingly, i'd recommend using the wrapper with animdl (which i set as the default); otherwise you can always edit the script to just print out the episode number and then select it iteratively for ani-cli v3.4+

[justchokingaround]

i meant interactively not iteratively, but i have monke brain