Retain color info

[ericwooley]

This may not be doable, because colors are disabled from TTY shells (I think)

But it would be really nice to have.

One option is to multiplex a new terminal, instead of a child process. https://github.com/chjj/blessed#terminal-from-box

[from-nibly]

That uses the pty.js library underneath which will allow for colors. But the problem is you need to do things like set PS1="" because it will output the prompt. Using that as a solution will be full of corner cases.

Here is the output of ls with zsh set as the shell. It does have color in my terminal but that is a lot to clean up.

l  //this repeating is probably from syntax highlighting rewriting the command on the fly
ls
ls



index.js  node_modules  package.json  swatch


(my prompt printed here)

Not to say this isn't a possible solution. It will just be a bit of work.

[ericwooley]

@from-nibly Thanks for the tip. That does seem a bit rough. I think i need to learn a bit more about terminals and the pty lib before I attempted something like that.

I was thinking I would literally run the commands in the terminal box sub view, and remove the buttons. to restart etc...

basically add an optional parameter to use a full sub terminal or not.