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Nicholas Marriott 2013-03-28 12:42:00 +00:00
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NOTES
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- command bits and pieces:
* use "--" to mark start of command w/ neww etc to avoid quoting
* why doesn't command-prompt work if made read-only?
* allow multiple targets: fnmatch for -t/-c, for example detach all
clients with -t*
* add -c for new-session like new-window
* attach should take a pane and select it as well as attaching
* ' and " should be parsed the same (eg "\e" vs '\e') in config
and command prompt
* last-pane across sessions
This file describes rough notes regarding ideas for potential future tmux
development. It's not necessarily guaranteed that items in this TODO file
will ever get implemented.
- make command sequences more usable
* don't require space after ;
* options for error handling: && and ||?
It is asked therefore, that anyone thinking of undertaking a task in this
TODO file, email tmux-users@lists.sf.net to discuss the feature.
- options bits and pieces:
* set-remain-on-exit is a complete hack
* way to set socket path from config file
Thie file is split up between tmux user interface (UI) issues, and terminal
compatibility issues.
- format improvements:
* option to quote format (#{session_name:quoted})
* formats need conditions for >0 (for #P)
* some way to pad # stuff with spaces, #!2T maybe
* status stuff is redundant with formats
TMUX UI ISSUES
==============
- choose mode improvements:
* choose-pane command (augment choose-tree to do this?)
* choose-mode and copy-mode are very similar, make choose-mode a subset?
* flag to choose-* for sort order
* chose mode would be better per client than per window
- improve monitor-*:
* straighten out rules for multiple clients
* think about what happens across sessions
* monitor changes within a region
* perhaps monitor /all/ panes in the window not just one
- panning over window (window larger than visible)
- implicitly add exec to the commands for new windows (switch to disable it)?
- bring back detach-session to detach all clients on a session?
- allow fnmatch for -c, so that you can, eg, detach all clients
- garbage collect window history (100 lines at a time?) if it hasn't been used
in $x time
- flags to centre screen in window
- activity/bell should be per-window not per-link? what if it is cur win in
session not being watched?
- should be able to move to a hidden pane and it would be moved into view. pane
number in status line/top-right would be cool for this
- support other mouse modes (highlight etc) and use it in copy mode
- set-remain-on-exit is a bit of a hack, some way to do it generically?
- would be nice to be able to use "--" to mark start of command w/ neww etc
to avoid quoting
- make command sequences more usable: don't require space after ;, handle
errors better
- choice and more mode would be better per client than per window?
- hooks to which commands may be attached, for example: tmux add-hook
"new-session" if-shell "[ -e $HOME/.tmux-session.conf ]" source-file
$HOME/.tmux-session.conf
- way to set socket path from config file
- warts on current naming:
- display-time but message-fg/bg/attr
- list-* vs show-*
- server-info
- up-pane/down-pane/swap-pane -U/swap-pane -D vs next-*/previous-*
- split-window -> split-pane??
- some way to force a screen to use the entire terminal even if it is forced
to be smaller by other clients. pan smaller terminal? (like screen F)
-- idea of a "view" onto a window, need base x/y offsets for redraw
- commands should be able to succeed or fail and have || or && for command
lists
- some way to keep a command running continually and just use its last line of
output
- UTF-8 to a non-UTF-8 terminal should not be able to balls up
the terminal - www/ruby-addressable; make regress
- support esc-esc to quit in modes
- fix ctrl+F1-F4 output. to what?
- better utf8 support: window names, prompt input, message display
- option to move copy mode indicator into status line
- selection behaviour closer to vi in vi mode
- live update: server started with -U connects to server, requests sessions and
windows, receives fds
- sort out inheriting config from shell on new sessions/windows:
should pick up default-path/termios/etc from client if possible,
else leave empty/default
- link panes into multiple windows
- bells should be passed between sessions with visual-bell etc
sequence until its shell exits, to allow them to be used from the config file
- better session sharing: create-socket command to create socket somewhere (-r
flag for readonly)
- multiline status line (no?)
- support title stack, both internally and externally
- improve mouse support:
* bind commands to mouse in different areas?
* more fine-grained options
* commands executed when clicking on a pattern (URL)
- hooks!
- warts on current naming:
* display-time but message-fg/bg/attr
* list-* vs show-*
* server-info
* split-window -> split-pane??
- way to keep a job running just read its last line of output for #()
- better UTF-8 support:
* window names and titles
* message display
* prompt input
* multibyte key input
- live update: server started with -U connects to server, requests sessions and
windows, receives file descriptors
- there are inconsistencies in what we get from old shell and what comes from
config for new sessions and windows
- multiline status line?
- support title stack, both internally and externally (restore on detach)
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1149299+0+archive/2010/freebsd-questions/20100207.freebsd-questions
- some way to pad # stuff with spaces, #!2T maybe
- a binding to "scroll down and exit at bottom" copy mode
- some way to pass keystrokes in copy mode through to underlying window. why?
- last window update time and # replacement for it for display-message
- find-window across sessions - other ways to make session handling easier?
- ' and " should be parsed the same (eg "\e" vs '\e') in config and command
prompt?
- command to toggle selection not to move it in copy-mode
- audit of escape sequence support vs xterm
- support binding keys to mouse (mouse-select-pane -> mouse-keys or something,
mouse click == select-pane -t %%, mouse scroll up == copy-mode)
- bind commands to key sequences? -- make it so ALL keys go through a table,
first an implicit table in which C-b is the only default binding to a
command that says "next key from $othertable" and so on. means -n can
go away as well
- monitor, bell etc should monitor /all/ panes in the window not just one
- a history of commands that can be reversed (reverse member of each command,
and a buffer)
- info() when changing to same window
- way to add dest for break-pane; maybe some easier way to unbreak-pane
- case insensitive searching
- incremental searching in copy mode.
- configurable borders and empty space filler for when panes < window?
- mouse-select-pane will screw up with !MODE_MOUSE_STANDARD (it sets the
flag on w/o checking the others before calling tty_update_mode)
- pass shell commands as argv rather than strings, allow them to be specified
in commands without quotes
- named buffers and allow gaps in the stack
- monitor-activity is broken in several ways with multiple clients
- monitor-activity should be more powerful (eg set a region)
- maybe a way to put pane names instead of window names in status line
- support for borderless panes
- wait-for command 20130222153957.GY6782@yelena.nicm.ath.cx
- last-pane across sessions
- last window update time and format for it
- bind commands to key sequences -- make it so ALL keys go through a table,
first an implicit table in which C-b is the only default binding to a command
that says "next key from $othertable" and so on. means -n can go away as well
- why are -s and -t different for swap- and move-pane?
- copy/paste improvements:
* case insensitive searching
* incremental searching
* append to buffer
* paste w/o trailing whitespace
* named buffers and allow gaps in the stack
* command to toggle selection not to move it in copy-mode
- mouse-select-pane will screw up with !MODE_MOUSE_STANDARD (it sets the flag
on w/o checking the others before calling tty_update_mode)
- panes should have names like windows
- command-prompt doesn't work if made read-only. why?
- option to quote format eg #{session_name:quoted}
- formats need conditions for >0 (for #P)
- fetch full command line on !Linux, and add option to strip prefixes
such as "sh " "/bin/sh " etc etc
- synchronize-windows option
- append to buffer in copy mode
- way to paste w/o trailing whitespace
- flag to switch-client to switch all clients
- history of layouts and undo/redo flags to selectl
- way to tag a layout as a number/name
- optimize pane redraws, 20120318184853.GK10965@yelena.nicm.ath.cx
- support multibyte key strings
- allow commands to be executed when certain patterns in a screen
are clicked on with the mouse
- flag to make next/previous commands skip a window
- way to do tmux command/run-shell from mode keys
- send command to all windows
- choose-pane command (augment choose-tree to do this?)
- choose-mode and copy-mode are very similar. Perhaps make choose-mode a subset
of copy-mode in that it inherits key-bindings and other traits but not all
- add -c for new-session like new-window
- flag to choose-* for sort order (eg sort windows/sessions/clients by last
used time) - perhaps using formats (but what about numeric sort)?
- instead of separate window and session options, just one master options list
with each option having a type (window or session), then options on window,
on session, and global. for window options we look window->session->global,
and for session we look session->global
- maybe keep last layout + size around and if size reverts just put it back
- way to set hints/limits about pane size for resizing
- revamp layouts: they are too complicated, should be more closely integrated,
should support hints, layout sets should just be a special case of custom
layouts, and we should support panes that are not attached to a cell at
all. this could be the time to introduce panelink to replace layout_cell
- run-shell/if-shell should support formats
- attach should take a pane and select it as well as attaching
- attach should have a flag to create session if it doesn't exist. or better
new a flag to attach it
TERMINAL ISSUES
================
- use a better termcap internally instead of screen, perhaps xterm
- clear window title on exit (see using xterm title stack)
- get it passing all the vttest tests that don't require resizing the terminal
- support for bce
- use screen-256color when started on 256 colour terminal?
* We need a tmux terminfo entry to document the extensions we are using in
upstream terminfo. Must NOT change (only add or remove) anything from
TERM=screen so we can fallback!
- we need a tmux terminfo entry to document the extensions we are using in
upstream terminfo