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...)
