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reply "Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)" <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
Was just thinking about this: I've often liked the idea of having a 
terminal emulator built-into my code editor, so it could auto-highlight 
errors/etc and do jump-to-line on ANY variation of build command, 
without having to set up a custom build tool in the editor for "the is 
the exact command to build my project". (Yes, Iknow that full IDEs...and 
even many editors support jump-to-line, but they generally don't support 
running arbitrary modifications of commands without manually setting up 
ahead of time a very specific instance of a command).

But it just occurred to me: There's no reason any ordinary terminal 
emulator couldn't be written to do the same thing. A setting for a 
custom regex to look for, another setting for a command to run when the 
line is clicked on. That should be about it. The user's editor would 
have to support some kind of "editor --jump-to..." feature, but aside 
from that...well, why the heck not?

The terminal emulator I've been using (Konsole) doesn't appear to have 
anything like that, AFAICT. But I'm not really married to Konsole. 
Anyone know of another terminal with a feature like this?
Oct 14 2018
next sibling parent reply Basile B. <b2.temp gmx.com> writes:
On Sunday, 14 October 2018 at 23:28:04 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:

 Was just thinking about this: I've often liked the idea of 
 having a terminal emulator built-into my code editor, so it 
 could auto-highlight errors/etc and do jump-to-line on ANY 
 variation of build command, without having to set up a custom 
 build tool in the editor for "the is the exact command to build 
 my project". (Yes, Iknow that full IDEs...and even many editors 
 support jump-to-line, but they generally don't support running 
 arbitrary modifications of commands without manually setting up 
 ahead of time a very specific instance of a command).

 But it just occurred to me: There's no reason any ordinary 
 terminal emulator couldn't be written to do the same thing. A 
 setting for a custom regex to look for, another setting for a 
 command to run when the line is clicked on. That should be 
 about it. The user's editor would have to support some kind of 
 "editor --jump-to..." feature, but aside from that...well, why 
 the heck not?

 The terminal emulator I've been using (Konsole) doesn't appear 
 to have anything like that, AFAICT. But I'm not really married 
 to Konsole. Anyone know of another terminal with a feature like 
 this?


VTE can certainly do this. It's the library many people use to 
embed a terminal in their app (or to make terminals, like Tilix). 
You can look at the API to get a better idea of what's possible 
https://developer.gnome.org/vte/0.48/VteTerminal.html. Click on 
message is certainly possible.

I use VTE in Coedit but so far the only advanced feature is that 
it follows the projects path and/or the editor file path 
dynamically. Useful but far from what you describe, which is done 
elsewhere.

I think that Konsole must be based on something similar to VTE 
(i.e a library) because the way it's integrated in Dolphin for 
example shows that it's not just a window that's hosted (it 
follows the path selected in the explorer... oh i remember where 
i stole the idea now...)
Oct 14 2018
parent "Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)" <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
On 10/14/18 10:28 PM, Basile B. wrote:

 
 VTE can certainly do this. It's the library many people use to embed a 
 terminal in their app (or to make terminals, like Tilix). You can look 
 at the API to get a better idea of what's possible 
 https://developer.gnome.org/vte/0.48/VteTerminal.html. Click on message 
 is certainly possible.
 
 I use VTE in Coedit but so far the only advanced feature is that it 
 follows the projects path and/or the editor file path dynamically. 
 Useful but far from what you describe, which is done elsewhere.
 
 I think that Konsole must be based on something similar to VTE (i.e a 
 library) because the way it's integrated in Dolphin for example shows 
 that it's not just a window that's hosted (it follows the path selected 
 in the explorer... oh i remember where i stole the idea now...)


Cool, I didn't know about VTE. On the desktop, I'm more KDE/Qt, but 
apparently, it seems Qt has an equivalent: qtermwidget. Don't know 
whether it supports the same thing though. Will have to look into it.
Oct 14 2018
prev sibling parent reply Gerald <gerald.b.nunn gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 14 October 2018 at 23:28:04 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
(Abscissa) wrote:

 But it just occurred to me: There's no reason any ordinary 
 terminal emulator couldn't be written to do the same thing. A 
 setting for a custom regex to look for, another setting for a 
 command to run when the line is clicked on. That should be 
 about it. The user's editor would have to support some kind of 
 "editor --jump-to..." feature, but aside from that...well, why 
 the heck not?

 The terminal emulator I've been using (Konsole) doesn't appear 
 to have anything like that, AFAICT. But I'm not really married 
 to Konsole. Anyone know of another terminal with a feature like 
 this?


Tilix supports this. You can define a custom regex and then use 
the values extracted by the regex to launch an editor to load the 
file at the right line number.

https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/manual/customlinks/

The screenshot shows a configuration that does this for gedit.
Oct 14 2018
parent reply "Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)" <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
On 10/14/18 10:31 PM, Gerald wrote:

 
 Tilix supports this. You can define a custom regex and then use the 
 values extracted by the regex to launch an editor to load the file at 
 the right line number.
 
 https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/manual/customlinks/
 
 The screenshot shows a configuration that does this for gedit.


Awesome! With all the terminal emulators out there, I figured I couldn't 
be the only one to think of this.

I'll admit, I have a very strong personal distaste for UIs that use the 
GNOME interface guidelines. But, this is such a useful feature, I think 
I'll be using it anyway when I'm coding. And heck, maybe someday I'll 
just whip up a term of my own :)

I've been using KDevelop as my editor lately, and it doesn't support 
this *quite* as nicely as I would like. But this configuration does seem 
to be working for me:

Regex: (.*)\(([0-9]+)\):.*
Cmd:   kdevelop -s SESSION_NAME_HERE $1:$2

Unfortunately, Tilix doesn't appear to support using envvars from the 
current terminal in the custom command above (if that would even be 
possible), so I'll have to manually change SESSION_NAME_HERE to my 
KDevelop session name once per session. (Or always use "curr" or 
something for whatever session I'm currently working in.)

Still though, this will be really nice to have working. Thanks.
Oct 14 2018
parent "Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)" <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
On 10/15/18 2:00 AM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:

 Unfortunately, Tilix doesn't appear to support using envvars from the 
 current terminal in the custom command above (if that would even be 
 possible), so I'll have to manually change SESSION_NAME_HERE to my 
 KDevelop session name once per session. (Or always use "curr" or 
 something for whatever session I'm currently working in.)


Ooohh, oohh!!! I can just use a file instead of an envvar:

kdevelop -s `cat ~/.kdev-sess` $1:$2

$ echo name-of-desired-kdevelop-session > ~/.kdev-sess
(Or better yet, wrap that in a trivial script.)
Oct 14 2018