On Fri, 2 Apr 2021 16:28:48 +0200 Christian Parpart <christian@parpart.family> said:
> Hey Carsten, > > > did you read the README that terminology comes with? :) it actually > details how> the escapes work... > > Many thanks for the quick response. I actually did look at the (I think) > official homepage of Terminology, which is part of the Enlightenment > website. And I did look at the source code, however, that was some time ago > already and I didn't quite succeed in understanding it while attempting to > understand how you transmit an image to the terminal. Having had a look now > at the README.md of the github repo I found actually delighted me, I wonder > why I didn't come up with that idea myself, so many thanks. :-) that info was always in the README. it's been there since the day i added the escapes. i styled them after xterm's extended escapes to set the title string. :) the examples (typop/ls/bg/cat etc.) were also there since that first day. they serve as examples on how to do the escapes as well as rough tools in and of themselves (i really was more expecting std tools to start getting support for these things like normal /bin/ls --icons or something :)). :) > [...] > > hell there are some more like tysend.c > > I have been called many things, but hell wasn't part of it just yet. ;-) hahaha :) > > which allows you to remote send data via escapes (think of a modern > version of > > zmodem over serial - but now u can ssh to some other system or telnet > > or whatever then tysend filename and it'll arrive locally where the > terminal > > runs with progress bars etc.). > > That's been exactly what I have been looking for. :+1: tysend and the appropriate code in terminology for the receive end is then what you want. i wrote this as a convenience - i often enough want to grab a file from somewhere but sometimes i have to ssh-hop through 1 or 2 or 3 machines. a tysend will then just pipe all the way back along with stdout :) ... damned handy for grabbing that file you wanted. the progress bar is just a nice bonus. :) > > as for when did this come about? my first commit to terminology (ie when i > > first published it to a repository - i was working on it before this so > it'd > > have started before this). it was: > > Date: Tue Jun 12 10:10:01 2012 +0000 > > Many thanks for the date of first appearance. :) :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
