[Toybox] Editors and such.

[Roy Tam]

2012/6/17 David Seikel <onefang at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:14:34 +0800 Roy Tam <roytam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sat Jun 16 08:47:05 PDT 2012 David Seikel <onefang at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:20:11 +1000 David Seikel <onefang at gmail.com>
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> Then there would be a toy I'm calling toyboxes.
>> >
>> >Hmm, seems toybox does not like toy names that partially match the
>> >names of other toys.  Every time I try to use "toyboxes", it finds
>> >"toybox" instead.
>>
>> why not use "boxes" as the name?
>
> That's exactly what I did, and that worked fine.  Still, shows there's
> a problem in toybox.  The name "toyboxes" failed, coz it got confused
> with "toybox", the name "boxes" worked.  I can't think off the top of my
> head of any other cases where a command we might want to support has
> it's name being a subset of the name of some other command we might
> want to support, but it could happen.
>
>> maybe we can have a simplified GNU SCREEN with it? ;-)
>
> Does GNU own screen?  Careful with such assumptions around here.

Yes they did.
http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

>
> I do have a note on my design docs that it might be possible to
> implement something like screen or tmux, and a warning not to turn into
> curses or twin. lol
>
> The design goal is to support things like full screen text viewers,
> editors, and midnight commander.  Being a generalised full screen text
> UI library is out of scope.  Side by side boxes, status lines, menus,
> scrolling text, text editing, these things are in scope.  A centred
> popup widget for selecting options and entering command parameters is
> borderline in scope, I'm gonna see if I can leave it out at first.
> Arbitrary text "windows" that you can drag around with the mouse,
> cacalib support, these things are out of scope.
>
> Screen and tmux do happen to fall within the scope of what is supported
> by the library design though.  There's a nohup toy, so it might be
> possible.  That's about the limit of my thoughts in how to support
> screen or tmux.  I'm not going out of my way to support them, but it
> may be possible anyway.
>
> So far the code has ended up being a lot simpler than I expected.  B-)
>
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