Anonymous user
Talk:Terminal control/Positional read: Difference between revisions
Talk:Terminal control/Positional read (view source)
Revision as of 19:48, 22 September 2011
, 12 years ago→Possible with tmux?: new section
m (moved Talk:Terminal control/Positional Read to Talk:Terminal control/Positional read: Capitalization policy) |
(→Possible with tmux?: new section) |
||
Line 36:
: I was thinking about doing such things, but it requires the terminal to be under the complete control of the program; basically, the task as it stands requires a model of operation that is actually quite rare. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 14:49, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
== Possible with tmux? ==
This task might become possible if the Unix terminal is a [http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ tmux] pane. Inside the pane, run these three shell commands:
<lang bash>$ tmux capture-pane
$ tmux show-buffer > my-file
$ tmux delete-buffer</lang>
Then one must find column 3, row 6 of ''my-file''. This is not trivial, because each line ends with ASCII NL, and some lines might end early.
I have not found any way to synchronize this operation if multiple processes (perhaps in different tmux panes) want to read characters at the same time. --[[User:Kernigh|Kernigh]] 19:48, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
| |||