https://github.com/cameroncros/PoorMansScreen/tree/better_screen (The main branch is how I currently use it, not at all screen-like, the better_screen branch is much closer to a screen replacement.)

It all currently works fine, albeit quite simple, and I suspect not following best practices. Please talk shit about my code so I can fix that :D

For my next stage of development, I would like to use some combo of vt100 and ratatui to wrap the shell in a border, or add a menu bar at the top or bottom to make it clear when the user is inside a "screen". Does anyone have any thoughts on how to go about doing that? I am very unskilled at ratatui.

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[–] BB_C 7 points 4 days ago (5 children)

If you're serious about creating something good/better, you should use alacritty_terminal (not to be confused with the terminal app built on top of it) for low-level (from your PoV) terminal support.

This is something zellij didn't do. And now they have "basic functionality" bugs like this one open for years.

I also wonder what made you pick screen as a baseline to improve on instead of tmux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

My first thoughts was also "Don't. Clone tmux instead." But don't use ctrl-b. It's a massively awkward and annoying combo on common keyboards. And don't make it necessary to release ctrl before the second key.

[–] BB_C 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But don’t use ctrl-b

What migrant from screen didn't start by adding this to tmux config? 😄

set-option -g prefix C-a
unbind-key "C-b"
bind-key "C-a" send-prefix

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I do the same, but with ctrl-t. Ctrl-a means select all, and t means "tmux" and happens to be under my right middle finger on my layout (dvorak).

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