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Linux port of FAR v2
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Bring tty version to functional parity with wx version as close as possible #1101

Open unxed opened 3 years ago

unxed commented 3 years ago

Some users do not want to leave their preferred terminal apps. Making tty version better will bring greater experience for such users, spreading far2l usage wider. Most of this work is already done, but there are still some minor issues left.

  1. ✓ Complex hotkeys, like Ctrl+Shift+arrows. Already supported in terminal. Single ESC press — also supported (an option in settings to enable it by default is appreciated).

  2. ✓ Mouse. Also already works in terminal.

  3. Some terminal apps and DEs intercept some hotkeys used by far2l. It may be disabled in their settings (instructions on doing this may be added to far2l help optionally). See https://github.com/elfmz/far2l/pull/2291

  4. ✓ X clipboard access https://github.com/elfmz/far2l/issues/810 Fallback clipboard set method is OSC 52 https://github.com/elfmz/far2l/issues/641

  5. Desktop notifications. We may fall back to notify-send if far2l extensions are not available

  6. ✓ Cursor shape. There are escape seqs for modifying it: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=screen&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+5.4-RELEASE&format=html E[=s;eC Set custom cursor shape, where s is the starting and e is the ending scanlines of the cursor. Other options: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/715 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/49485/escape-code-to-change-cursor-shape https://iterm2.com/documentation/2.1/documentation-escape-codes.html Maybe we should make default cursor size 2px or 3px as in wx version, not 1px

  7. BeginConsoleAdhocQuickEdit, GetLargestWindowSize, SetConsoleWindowMaximized — can be done by terminal emulators theirselves; also see https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html (look for "Window manipulation" string)

  8. keydown/keyup events — no alfernative for terminal, I afraid. Isn't this functionality used in far2l for F* key suggestions only? UPD: can be solved by capturing X input, see #1126 UPD2: now possible in some terminals, see #1575

  9. SetFKeyTitles — no alfernative for terminal, I afraid

elfmz commented 3 years ago

It will never be just like, and these small lacks there and here will kill all taste of FAR:) FAR is good not cuz to its FAR, but cuz has many little things that makes life easier - spirit of (old good) Windows apps that was lost sometime/sometime :( Just few examples: 1 Complex hotkeys are not distinguishing left and right Ctrl - this is must have to use bookmarks fluently, also not all terminals works same (good/bad) and from my experience no one terminal supports really all possible combinations. 4 Vertical text blocks copy-pasting will be lost (although may think about prefixing text with some magic pattern that would declare clipboard data format). 7 BeginConsoleAdhocQuickEdit is context dependent - if you click on command line or background you've getting auto-copy behaviour, if you're clicking inside editor or panels - you're will get some different functionality. 8/9 you wrote yourself

BTW far2l is TUI application regardless if it uses GUI(WX) or TTY backend.

unxed commented 3 years ago

Of course, it's best to keep maximum of the UX of Windows Far, and it makes sense to offer wx version by default in all cases then X is available.

At the same time, we already offer a tty mode, and if this mode spoils the impression of far2l, it will hardly spoil it more with xclip support for example :)

Katarn commented 3 years ago

I'm used FAR in drop-down, quake-style terminals - both on Windows and on Linux. The WX version cannot be integrated into such terminals in any way. Therefore, I fully support the author of the topic - it would be very good if the headlights for the terminal were as close as possible to the supported functions with the WX version.

unxed commented 2 years ago

X interactions in TTY mode (clipboard, keyboard modifiers probing) are complete! https://github.com/elfmz/far2l/commit/126a52b80cfa47caa52e8dab7bf3d7ee96a53f7b

unxed commented 2 years ago

window management (maximization, etc): https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html look for "Window manipulation" string

unxed commented 2 years ago

Ctrl[+Shift]+digits now working in terminals in new ttyxi mode, great! NB, for slow/unstalbe connections it's better to run remote far2l inside local far2l to use far2l terminal extensions for smoother input.

unxed commented 2 years ago

some usage stats from far2l russian chat (~30 votes total)

Снимок экрана от 2022-01-02 03-53-57

unxed commented 1 year ago

keydown/keyup events — no alfernative for terminal, I afraid

Now possible at least for: iTerm2 kovidgoyal's kitty Windows Terminal

Details here: #1575