Ability to add split panes in iTerm

[davidrapson]

It would be awesome if there was a way of creating new split panes within iTerm 2 in addition to tabs. Something like the following would be cool but I feel it might be clobbering your lovely syntax.

tab :split => "vertically" do 
    pane "gitx"
    pane "ls" 
end 

[achiurizo]

hm, this seems useful. I'll have to look into this. If you liked to submit a patch, i'll be more than happy to accept =)

[davidrapson]

Hmm, looking at the docs and this issue it seems current AppleScript support in iTerm2 only covers windows and tabs, not split panes

[LevelbossMike]

I have found a way to split panes. Calling menu actions is possible with Applescript. I am currently working on integrating this with the terminitor dsl. The syntax is supposed to come down to this:

tab do
  pane run "gitx" # first pane
    pane do      # horizontal split
      run "ls"
    end
  pane run 'ls'   # vertical split
end

should result into something like this

    #    ###########################
    #    #            #            #
    #    #   'gitx'   #            #
    #    #            #            #
    #    #            #            #
    #    #            #            #
    #    ##############     'ls'   #
    #    #            #            #
    #    #            #            #
    #    #   'ls'     #            #
    #    #            #            #
    #    #            #            #
    #    ###########################

Everyone fine with that?

[achiurizo]

hm that loooks pretty good. i look forward to your patch!

[LevelbossMike]

I just pushed a working version to my forked repository. There is still some clean up in the code left to do, but it works as far as I am concerned.

I will clean it up and perhaps writes some test in the next few days and send a pull request after that. Please have a look at my fork and tell me if something is not working as it should be.

Thanks for this awesome project achiu!

Best regards, Mike

[achiurizo]

this feature has been pulled in and release thanks to @LevelbossMike. closing ticket!