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randy3k / Terminus

Bring a real terminal to Sublime Text
https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Terminus
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Temporarily disabling key capture (feature request?) #226

Open fredcallaway opened 4 years ago

fredcallaway commented 4 years ago

Is it possible to temporarily disable the key capture, such that the terminus view is treated as an ordinary (non-writable) file? The idea is to achieve something like tmux or iTerm's copy mode, to select text using the standard sublime keybindings.

randy3k commented 4 years ago

it does sound like a valid feature request. Basically, we need to add a new query key at https://github.com/randy3k/Terminus/blob/0800dbff96b299f461e19c0de052817d6936f9e4/terminus/query.py#L14-L14 that allows us to do

{ "keys": ["A"], "command": "terminus_keypress", "args": {"key": "A"}, 
  "context": [
    {"key": "terminus_view"},
    {"key": "terminus_view.suspend_keypress", "operator": "not_equal", "operand": true}
] },
fredcallaway commented 4 years ago

OK and how would you toggle that context key?

I thought it might be easier to just have a global flag in a settings file that can be toggled on and off with a command. This has the advantage of not requiring us to edit all the keypress keybindings.

wviechtb commented 2 years ago

Is this something that is still being considered as a feature? Would be highly interested in this functionality (for the same reason that @fredcallaway mentioned).

fredcallaway commented 1 year ago

Bumping this. Note that it's not just key capture but also the automatic cursor re-positioning. I think the best approach is to have a flag that basically freezes the entire plugin, leaving whatever text that is currently on the screen (ideally, one could scroll up, but I think it would still be very useful without that ability). @randy3k can you provide any guidance on where one would implement something like that?