Is Combo box supported ?

[eternity74]

What Operating System(s) are you running on?

Windows

Which Wayland compositor or X11 Window manager(s) are you using?

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20231203-124028-e3cd2e93

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Hi,
I really like this terminal for daily use especially customizing for my usage.
I would like to setup menu like command palette for creating ad-hoc ssh tab.
I use multiple ssh connection to multiple embedded devices and their ip address is not static.
So I want to setup list of ip adress or hostname and select or input from combobox and then make it ad-hoc ssh connection on new tab.
I'm trying to find a way to achive this but I haven't found any solution yet.
So I have two questions.

1. Is combobox supported ? if not, is there any possible way to achive same behavior ?
2. is there any way to use ad-hoc ssh connection with arbitrary ip address ?

Thanks for providing such a good proejct.

[nekowinston]

WezTerm can parse your SSH config ~/.ssh/config, which you can further modify with enumerate_ssh_hosts.
To quickly connect to ssh targets, I like to use the Command Palette like this:

[eternity74]

Thanks!
How can i modify ssh config with enumerate_ssh_hosts ?
Do you mean do it from .wezterm.lua file ?
Or is it possible to do it on execution a command ?

[wez]

If the built-in ssh config parsing doesn't meet your needs, you may want to look at https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/keyassignment/InputSelector.html for a way to show a list of items to the user and have them select one.

If you want to allow the user to type in an ip address, then look at https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/keyassignment/PromptInputLine.html

[eternity74]

Thanks for the quick answer.

I tried to use InputSelector to get arbitrary hostname and connect ssh but I couldn't find any way to launch "wezterm ssh hostname" as new tab. What I found is that spawn tab by using ssh_domain with no multiplex. So I want to modify hostname part of existing ssh_domain for work around.

For input, I would prefer to pick one if possible from list but if it is not in the list, I would input directly on single ui. So I want to use like combo box.

Is there possible way to do it ?

[wez]

couldn't find any way to launch "wezterm ssh hostname" as new tab.

There isn't currently a way to dynamically add an ssh domain for this, so your options are either to spawn it as a separate process with its own window, or spawn the ssh executable into a new tab/pane. The latter is fine on unix systems, but is less desirable on windows systems where you may be trying to avoid conpty.

For input, I would prefer to pick one if possible from list but if it is not in the list, I would input directly on single ui. So I want to use like combo box.

What I'd suggest is to use InputSelector to show the pre-defined list, add an option that will then trigger PromptInputLine if you want to enter an IP. wezterm doesn't support doing both list and line input at once.

[eternity74]

I am working on windows. So I prefer to use ssh client of wezterm instead of windows ssh client.
Regarding input I will try your suggestion.
Thanks for your help.