Re: [dev] a terminal transformer, analogous to a unix filter

2023-01-07 Thread Greg Minshall
[other] Greg, sorry, this is maybe too philosophical. but, reading your thoughts, what strikes me is, from the 1980s/90s (by [another] Greg[or] Kiczales) a model of things (software modules, say, or programs, or computing systems), where each "thing" has two sorts of interfaces: a *using* interfa

Re: [dev] a terminal transformer, analogous to a unix filter

2023-01-07 Thread Sebastian LaVine
On Sat Jan 7, 2023 at 9:30 PM EST, Greg Reagle wrote: > I have coined the phrase terminal transformer for a class of programs > like tmux, dvtm, tcvt, and splitvt. Perhaps there is already a phrase. "multiplexer" seems to be the term commonly used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_multiple

[dev] a terminal transformer, analogous to a unix filter

2023-01-07 Thread Greg Reagle
I have coined the phrase terminal transformer for a class of programs like tmux, dvtm, tcvt, and splitvt. Perhaps there is already a phrase. A terminal transformer runs on top of a terminal emulator and acts as a terminal emulator itself, with an application like nano running on top of it. In oth