Rodrigo Martins wrote in
:
|It was thus said that the Great Greg Reagle once stated:
|> I have coined the phrase terminal transformer for a class of programs
|> like tmux, dvtm, tcvt, and splitvt. Perhaps there is already a phrase.
|> A terminal transformer runs on top of a terminal emulator
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On Sunday, January 22nd, 2023 at 09:19, Greg Reagle - list at speedpost.net
wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023, at 10:29 AM, Rodrigo Martins wrote:
>
> > This has great potential. It can simplify the terminal program while
> > being
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023, at 10:29 AM, Rodrigo Martins wrote:
> This has great potential. It can simplify the terminal program while
> being very unixy.
>
> Here are some ideas for filters/transformers:
>
> - Unicode input: like composition key in the linux terminal or Xorg.
> - Lock: asks for passwor
This has great potential. It can simplify the terminal program while being very
unixy.
Here are some ideas for filters/transformers:
- Unicode input: like composition key in the linux terminal or Xorg.
- Lock: asks for password when locked, behaves like cat otherwise.
- Macro: allows recording a
[other] Greg,
sorry, this is maybe too philosophical. but, reading your thoughts,
what strikes me is, from the 1980s/90s (by [another] Greg[or] Kiczales)
a model of things (software modules, say, or programs, or computing
systems), where each "thing" has two sorts of interfaces: a *using*
interfa
On Sat Jan 7, 2023 at 9:30 PM EST, Greg Reagle wrote:
> I have coined the phrase terminal transformer for a class of programs
> like tmux, dvtm, tcvt, and splitvt. Perhaps there is already a phrase.
"multiplexer" seems to be the term commonly used:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_multiple
I have coined the phrase terminal transformer for a class of programs
like tmux, dvtm, tcvt, and splitvt. Perhaps there is already a phrase.
A terminal transformer runs on top of a terminal emulator and acts as
a terminal emulator itself, with an application like nano running on
top of it. In oth
