I hope Linux and Mac versions will be released before the end of the year, just after the planned features are completed, mainly including auto complete, running external tools and settings UI.
I am very glad you like WindTerm/WindEdit and made very good suggestions, thank you.
Although I haven't considered creating a framework for a simple linter, but WindTerm and WindEdit are originally one during development. In fact, there are four kits in the unreleased tool: terminal (WindTerm), editor (WindEdit), browser and file manager (including local filer like windows explorer and remote filer like Sftp client), They complement each other and form an efficient tool.
For example, WindEdit has a special function that can read virtual huge files. This feature is especially designed for remote files. Imagine that there is a very large file on the server that can be read and written directly without downloading it. Just like playing a video online, you only need to get a small piece of content currently read and written. That would be very efficient, especially when reading huge logs.
I don't think putting a stub on the server is the correct solution, because we cannot put stubs on every server.
I will continue to work hard to build better tools and hope you can use them happily.
The first thing is to provide more colors for easier reading. Folding, outlining and auto completing are also need syntax highlighting to analyze the output.
Which words are highlighted is determined by the configuration file. For example linux.lexer in "windterm-install-path/terminal/schemes/linux" defines how to highlight and linux.fold defines how to fold the output.
You can modify the configuration file to highlight any words you want to highlight.
Windterm will be moved to its own web site in the coming months.
And windterm repository will still exists on github, as I said, many code of it will be gradually released, like some library, classes of data structs, schemes, etc. That is why I created windterm repository on github. I just need time to clean these code when many new features are still waiting to be realized.
I love github and open source, but after experienced last failed open source project of mine, I won't release the whole windterm project any more, lots of feature requests and several tough issues make me exhausted.
I’m assuming this only kicks in if color is not applied inside the term?
You are right, if the text has color from server, the color will be respected and will not be styled again. Or many tools like vi will show a mess.
Being able to cat an xml/json/source file and get decent styling sounds quite cool.
Think a little more boldly. If we can piped the output of cat to a real text editor and let you view and modify and save it more easier:) Just pop up its content when you cat a file.
Have you thought of offering an embeddable component?
No, never. I think a good tool must guarantee its integrity. But the idea and method can be offered to others, like google introduced MapReduce and BigTable.
Perhaps offer the terminal for free and commercialize the component?
Windterm will always free for personal usage. I am very happy if someone will like to use my terminal. For companies, if they don't sell their products for money, they can use windterm for free too.
Thank you for every suggestion. Windterm hosted in github is just because many of it will be open source, and github is also very important for windterm. This is only the first release, many things will be done in the feature. If you want to create a great terminal to make users's life easier, you can't do things alone.
For example, text editors have created a lot of schemes for python, java, c++, even ada, shell script and etc, so they can provide autocomplete, color styling, folding, lint and so on. But what have done for the systems? Do we have an autocomplete list for Ubuntu's commands of each version? Do we have a whole scheme for every command and every option of Windows's cmd or Macos's bash? How can terminals provide features without these?
What is the soul of a terminal? The soul is only lies in the text in them. If we want to click a traceback line in a terminal and then open the error source file and jump to the error line to instead of a lot redundant operations, copy the path, open it in an editor , scroll to the error line, we must need to know what does the tranceback mean. So everything I talked, we need a lot of people's help, just like they have helped text editors in past half of century.
When all this have done, every terminal can share the schemes library to provide good features, and everyone has a lot of good tools to choose. I think it is more important than I just open the windterm's source. I call this true open source too.
It's not shameful for me to talk about money if I can make a lot of people happier when they using a more useful terminal, but I do care the terminal more than the money. Money is only a byproduct, with or without it, I am still very happy if I make my terminal dreams come to true.
