Send kakoune events for some control characters?

[losnappas]

Many programs show loading bars etc. that "re-print" the same line instead of always a new one.

In a kakoune fifo buffer, I could (in theory) react to control characters to make it work a bit more like the console. E.g. I could 'clear screen' in kakoune when that event is received. I'm thinking trigger-user-hook ansi-escape=abc?

Not sure at all if that'd work in practice.

[lee-at-zoo-corp]

I think that's going too far.

[losnappas]

Idk I think it'd be neat for basic stuff, e.g. progressing loading bars when I run npm install from kakoune. Implementation-wise I have no idea though

[lee-at-zoo-corp]

I should have been more elaborate. I meant at this point, you're suggesting kakoune essentially have a "terminal" mode. I think this plugin aims to allow for stylistic rendering and nothing else.

[eraserhd]

We don't have any concept of what's the "screen" vs what's before the screen, so I'm not sure that we could do anything useful here... and I'm not sure we want to, but I might be convinced by specific use cases.

I mostly use this for build logs. I would support escape sequences that clear to BOL, like that are used in download progress bars -- assuming we see some real cases for it. That doesn't seem bad.

As soon as we try to support terminal size and cursor positioning, we are reaching past colorized logs and man pages into actual interactive terminal functionality, and this seems like not the right place for that.