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prompt-toolkit / pymux

A terminal multiplexer (like tmux) in Python
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Library support? #61

Closed dothebart closed 7 years ago

dothebart commented 7 years ago

You mention in the readme that you may create a library from pymux. How far in the future is that plan? I'm currently working on a shell ui for jenkins: https://github.com/dothebart/jsh and would need something to have parallel builds browseable in a smart way - like a multi window less. The copy buffer is mentioned to be searcheable with hilighting - can it als work / tail a file?

jonathanslenders commented 7 years ago

Hi Wilfried, there are still a few things that need to be done for this to work. I'm working on some refactoring of the prompt_toolkit internal architecture. Right now, it's difficult to make parts of pymux reusable for other applications. But that's going to be fixed. (Giving a deadline is hard, but I hope to finish that part in the coming 6 months.) Then I need to rewrite parts of pymux and pyvim to work with the new prompt_toolkit API. Doing a tail on a file is technically possible. Have a look at pypager: https://github.com/jonathanslenders/pypager So to summarize. All of this in not really easy right now, but I hope it becomes easy and fun in the near future.

dothebart commented 7 years ago

Thanks a lot, so maybe it will become an option in the future. Thanks for the hint.