Feature Vision Discussion: Miscellaneous

[sholderbach]

This issue is part of the larger vision discussion managed in #63 to brainstorm and prioritize ideas around features that would make reedline as a line editor for you both viable as well as pleasant to use. Feel free to up-vote features you depend on in other tools/shells as well as suggest new ideas!

Miscellaneous Features and Goals

• Validation to trigger multiline on incomplete lines
• Tested behaviour under various environments
  • OSes
  • Terminal emulators: gnome-terminal, iTerm, alacritty, windows terminal
  • Multiplexers: screen, tmux
  • As ssh session
• possible plugins to use file searches and terminal browsers: fzf, skim, broot, zoxide, ranger, etc
• Responsive resizing

[sholderbach]

Current voting

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• 👍 Validation for multiline continuation
• 👎 external file/path discovery plugins (fzf, skim, broot, zoxide, ranger, mcfly, etc)
• 😄 ensured experience under tmux, ssh etc.
• 🎉 Responsiveness when resizing

[nothingnesses]

One suggestion would be to add support for web terminals. I think one way to go about this would be to leverage the xterm-js-sys backend for crossterm. I'm not sure about how reedline's internals work and how pertinent this is, but there's also this rustyline issue which suggests that one way to add the feature to rustyline is "to read from and write to arbitrary streams". Maybe something similar could be done for reedline?