multi terminal

[YouSour]

hi , i'm new for cool-retro-term , cool-retro-term have shortcut key open multi terminal or not ? if not i hope have this feature soon . thank advance !

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[ppamorim]

+1

[vphantom]

Just a thought, but given the retro philosophy of CRT, people looking for multiple tabs should look to using the "screen" command as we did back when we used those monitors. :)

[YouSour]

:+1:

[a-andreyev]

My two cents: if you do not want to mess with the GNU Screen, I guess the task to open several windows fits more for your WM/DE not for the app itself.

[phroun]

I think if this had the edge of a television style knob showing on the skin (at the upper right edge), which switched between "VHF" channels 2-13 and off, and when flipping, the horizontal/vertical sync spazzed out just a little, this would be pretty awesome. Channel 3 should be where the first terminal shows up since that's where most devices frequency was set. Empty channels could show different kinds of static... Caveat: If this makes the skin wider, it needs to be an option not an always-on thing.

[dessalines]

I want to use this as my main driver, please add tabs!

[josefnpat]

Also look into tmux. Works with this software like a charm.

[larsbrinkhoff]

I agree with @vphantom. This would take away from the retro experience.

[adammathes]

For those that are interested in multiple cool-retro-terms on their desktop, I've started a branch.

https://github.com/adammathes/cool-retro-term/tree/multiterm

It works reasonably well on MacOS for me so far but I have not tested what happens on *nix with these changes.

And also I have never written any QML/QT before so feedback is welcomed.

[enkeli]

I disagree with @larsbrinkhoff. If implemented like @phroun suggests, it would be awesome and full retro! I've been using screen (i use it along with byobu (also tmux) a lot in other terminals) but there are some issues with some programs that outputs formatted text, and that is the only thing keeping me from using CRT as my main terminal.

[okasion]

For those who would like to use this terminal as a main one (I know, it's just eye-candy, but it is of the best kind), why wouldn't it be possible to have a terminal option?

[okasion]

Also, how difficult could be code shift+insert as paste command?

[dessalines]

control+shift+v is the standard terminal paste.

[okasion]

That works too... thanks.

[joshuaquek]

If you want to open another window of the same app, which, in this case, would be this app, you can try this command (works for OSX, you have to be in the /Applications directory where all of your apps are located):

open -n -a cool-retro-term

This should open another cool-retro-term window

[bconfortin]

I would love CRT to support tabs. It is so pretty and looks a lot like Fallout's terminals. With the tabs feature, It would definitely turn into my daily driver terminal.

[atmadeep]

So are we getting a multi terminal feature or not?

[heeplr]

I agree that tabs are not in the scope of this project and that screen/tmux/... is the solution to that.

But when using screen, I find that the default key combo "Ctrl+a Backspace" doesn't work to move to the previous session. "Ctrl+a n" to switch to the next session works fine.

Can we have Ctrl+a Backspace?

EDIT: I just found out that it works when Ctrl+a are being held down while pressing backspace. Other terminals also accept pressing Ctrl and a succesively.

[allisonober]

I came up with a limited, but very simple way for multiple terminal windows. In MacOS, I copied the application and renamed it to make it a separate app. Now I have two windows to use, which act like separate applications.

The downsides are configs won't be shared (you'll have to export in one and import in the other to update your profiles), and you'll need to repeat this depending on how many extra windows you want.

The up side is this is a very easy technique that can likely work on any OS. And a bonus, you can now cmd+tab between the terminals, which I actually prefer.

It's a bit silly, and you don't get keybindings, but it's simple and works. Two or three terminals is all I usually need, so this works well for me.

[sgnls]

As per #555, I am opening multiple instances absolutely fine via a keyboard shortcut... each trigger fires a new instance.

That aside, contending with the issue you're noting about importing the profile, you should look to use the flag to specify this for each instance;

$ cool-retro-term -p Futuristic
$ cool-retro-term -p Default

Unless I'm missing something, if you were to create a shortcut (keyboard or old-school), that should suffice without having to duplicate the application. If you open one, you can open another too;

$ cool-retro-term &

[frnco]

Just a thought, but given the retro philosophy of CRT, people looking for multiple tabs should look to using the "screen" command as we did back when we used those monitors. :)

Or emacs, you can do multiple buffers plus split the screen plus pretty much anything...

[SamuelBanya]

@frnco Please tell me how you are running Emacs on 'cool-retro-term' as there is no way to use the 'Command' key on MacOS at all in 'cool-retro-term'.

[Ganton]

@okasion Also, how difficult could be code shift+insert as paste command?

For that, there's a pull request: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/pull/702

At least we can add a "thumbs up" to that pull request.