I dunno if this is appropriate for this community, so mods, please delete if not.

I have been writing a screen clone in rust.

https://github.com/cameroncros/PoorMansScreen/tree/better_screen (The main branch is how I currently use it, not at all screen-like, the better_screen branch is much closer to a screen replacement.)

It all currently works fine, albeit quite simple, and I suspect not following best practices. Please talk shit about my code so I can fix that :D

For my next stage of development, I would like to use some combo of vt100 and ratatui to wrap the shell in a border, or add a menu bar at the top or bottom to make it clear when the user is inside a “screen”. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to go about doing that? I am very unskilled at ratatui.

  • XTL@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    3 days ago

    My first thoughts was also “Don’t. Clone tmux instead.” But don’t use ctrl-b. It’s a massively awkward and annoying combo on common keyboards. And don’t make it necessary to release ctrl before the second key.

    • BB_C
      2·
      3 days ago

      But don’t use ctrl-b

      What migrant from screen didn’t start by adding this to tmux config? 😄

      set-option -g prefix C-a
unbind-key "C-b"
bind-key "C-a" send-prefix