On 4/23/21 10:12 PM, Jeremy wrote:
On 04/20/21 10:23AM, Greg Reagle wrote:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021, at 09:45, Jeremy wrote:
I gave up on using dvtm a while ago (now I use tmux which is good) because it
would keep crashing. And I could not figure out how to debug the crashes or get
specific information about the cause of the crashes. If I had known about these
options then I would have compiled dvtm with them and maybe gave better bug
reports. (Though I know C, I am not an expert in C.)
I know what you're talking about & it's a pain in the ass. I believe
this is due to the ANSI parser implementation(vt.c) that DVTM uses.
I wrote a library, libst(a fork of st), and modified st, dvtm to link against
it:
https://github.com/jeremybobbin/libst
Try compiling & installing libst, then compile & run dvtm in libst/examples.
As much as I love dvtm, I believe it's a captive user interface, and
lacks the extensibility that a terminal multiplexer could/should provide.
Attempting to address this, I wrote, what I believe to be, a suckless
approach to terminal multiplexing - svtm:
https://github.com/jeremybobbin/svtm
svtm is a composition of primarily 4 programs:
- abduco - {at,de}tach
- svt - TTY state/dumping/scrolling
- bmac - byte-for-byte macros
- itty - lets you run TTY input through a filter(such as bmac)
I'd like to add a "paner" program to that list, but for now, the above
is all you need to express any terminal-oriented workflow in a UNIX
environment.
I'm curious as to what y'all think.
Jeremy
I and my entire team have been actively and successfully using dvtm for
years. I haven't had it crash in a long while now, and I regularly keep
sessions alive for months. However, I am very interested in using
something as you describe above, with a library version of st that is
kept up-to-date. I didn't get your svtm to work out-of-the-box, but I
will continue to debug it myself. I got all the programs to compile
fine, but did go into each Makefile and, where necessary, added the '?'
character to this line "PREFIX ?= /usr/local".
-Ross
