From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Is there a way of getting current xterm buffer?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 11:16:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMpYHeB0c3wkC_khMCHvrf0DrHHnzRtvYFXPoQkxtwkXew@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKc7PVDmdYC+7k5gLTabqmm=iSQg0W7oMLN3R=Na4W=Qmaz-8w@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 9:48 AM Sebastian Gniazdowski
<sgniazdowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I would like to implement a from-screen-words completion. For this,
> I need the current screen text. People have already used tmux for
> this, however I don't use it. Is there a way to somehow read
> screen-text/ I've have had hopes for it when reading xtermctl and
> promptnl (this function reads cursor position, so I've thought that
> maybe it could read the character at given position…), but no
> success at the end.
In general, terminals don't have this capability. The only terminal I
know that does is tmux. This isn't really a zsh question.
Roman.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-13 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-13 7:48 Sebastian Gniazdowski
2023-09-13 9:16 ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
2023-09-13 14:35 ` A. Wik
2023-09-13 15:14 ` Grant Taylor
2023-09-13 15:18 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-09-13 16:01 ` Oliver Kiddle
2023-09-13 16:10 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-09-13 18:59 ` Grant Taylor
2023-09-19 22:21 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2023-09-20 3:05 ` Grant Taylor
2023-09-20 12:28 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2023-09-21 18:05 ` Grant Taylor
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