Hi folks, in my mind, Terminology tries to push the boundaries of what's possible with terminal emulators forward. For instance, it has support for embedding videos and images through custom escape sequences. It obviously expects programs will make use of the new Terminology features.
It just occurred to me that programas could cooperate with Terminology to make their own custom tiling. For instance, Emacs has the eshell mode where Emacs acts as its own terminal emulator taking care of interpreting ANSI escape sequences and tiling the embedded terminal in its own window all by itself. What if Terminology exposed an env var such as TERMINOLOGY_SOCK=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/sock-1234.sock with a path for a UNIX socket so the program (such as Emacs) could open it to cooperate with Terminology? Emacs could open a new pty, spawn the embedded shell, and send a fd to the master end of the new pty back to Terminology. The message should include the position in the screen for the new embedded terminal. Now Terminology would only read from the master end so it can draw the contents of the embedded terminal appropriately in the new tile of the terminal window. Emacs would still get all the input as usual and only send input to the new terminal as it pleases (by writing in the master end of the pty). So, Terminology already decodes ANSI escape sequences and performs tiling of terminal windows. The idea is to let applications reuse this implementation to allow further embedding other interactive programs in their own windows. Thoughts? -- Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira https://vinipsmaker.github.io/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
