2008/9/5 pancake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey arg! what's on with ST? i'm really interested and looking forward > the advances in the minimalistic terminal implementation. Do you plan to > make some more advances? > > I have found something quite useful when working with lot of terminals > that is having different background colors depending on the task they > are designed to be. But currently i just change the background color of > vim and use this to differentiate them. another stuff would be like > changing the background color of the terminal depending on the focus. > > I see no terminal able to do this in a simple way.
The feature you are talking about is achievable with the st design in quite a simple way: the protocol between std (the terminal server which does vt2st conversions) and st (just a st protocol viewer) could allow to set the terminal background on certain regexp matching of the content being displayed, for example matching for sudo\|@.# might lead to a red background in the terminal to give visual feedback that something priviledged happens. However, regrettably st still is more a collection of ideas than an implementation. Kind regards, --Anselm
