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.
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.
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-prefixI do the same, but with ctrl-t. Ctrl-a means select all, and t means “tmux” and happens to be under my right middle finger on my layout (dvorak).