Simple Rust pseudoterminal-based login session example to read user input and output of a terminal session
I have been playing around with different OSX utilities for developer UX for a few years. Mostly stuff similar to Flashlight.
I saw this new OSX application Fig and was wondering how they were getting the information from the terminal.
I saw they have a few executables and I am pretty sure their figterm binary does the same thing as a project of mine.
I simplified out the relevant code from my project into this one so it is super easy to follow.
The idea would be that you have your terminal emulator or shell running this binary when they start so that it is always running.
This binary would then be sending the user input and pty/shell/process output of each open terminal to something read by another process which is responsible
for doing something like analyzing the input and output and doing something useful. Maybe offering to autocomplete the command you are typing?
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where you can take the data being typed and the data from the pty/shell/process and send that to something read by another process.
Maybe your GUI process is doing the analysis of this information and then showing you something that can enhance the development process.
This should work on both Linux and OSX.
- Check isatty and if not, don't do this whole thing
Again, I have learned a TON from nw0's session-manager. Great project..