I have not had a chance to dig into this code yet but I do agree that there
is a large amount of untapped potential in this functionality and that can
only be helped by making it easier to interface with.
I can see that a set of even not very intelligent layout mutating scripts
should be able to improve usable screen real-estate by a large factor, by
effectively blurring the line between panes and windows by just
auto-expanding the focused pane, letting unfocused panes get smaller but
still remain visible. It helps that all terminal programs I have used (with
few exceptions, such as man pages) are rather robust to resizing, because
we would now be resizing on pane changes!
Anyway, I think the simple fact that it's possible at all to do such
interfacing is 90% of the engineering work, so hats off to whoever decided
to put this capability into the design.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 3:10 AM Felix Rosencrantz <f.rosencra...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I've wondered why is the checksum needed? It seems like it would be
> easier for tmux users to write simple tools to tweak a custom layout
> without the checksum being there. As best I can tell from a comment in the
> code, it is a quick way to check if a layout is valid. I'm not familiar
> enough with the format or its issues, is checking the validity something
> that is hard to do from code without the checksum?
>
> It seems like it would be useful to have a simpler format, perhaps not as
> flexible as the current format, but one that was easier to parse, and
> validate. For example, one that just took pane_ids and used the same
> grouping via the braces and brackets like the current custom layout to
> build the cells structure, evenly distributing space among the child cells
> of a parent. Less control of pane placement, but easier to create more
> complicated patterns than the defaults.
>
> -FR.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Steven Lu <stevenlu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Thomas, thanks for the hint!
>>
>> layout-custom.c reveals a lot of things, I am now imagining that if I can
>> properly replicate the computation of the layout string along with the
>> checksum then I'll actually be able to do processing independent of
>> mutating the pane sizes within tmux, so that i can e.g. resize a particular
>> pane to make it bigger and then apply that change in one fell swoop by
>> feeding a brand new layout string.
>>
>> I just wanted to know if this is actually how you have designed the
>> "select-layout" command to work.
>>
>> I was taking a quick look at the source code (just poking around on
>> github) but it's strange that I cannot find the actual declaration for
>> "struct layout_cell"...
>>
>> On Sat Jul 27 2013 at 7:28:43 AM Thomas Adam <tho...@xteddy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 15 July 2013 23:06, Steven Lu <stevenlu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > 3: zsh (1 panes) [274x76] [layout cc63,274x76,0,0,6] @3
>>> > 4: zsh (1 panes) [274x76] [layout cc65,274x76,0,0,8] @4
>>> >
>>> > I'm hoping someone in the know could give me some hints about how to
>>> parse
>>> > this so that I can compute what the result would be to warp any pane
>>> to one
>>> > of the directions.
>>>
>>> You need to look in layout-custom.c
>>>
>>> -- Thomas Adam
>>>
>>
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