withoutboats
Is this a dead project?
I realize this project had very lofty goals from the start, and that it would take a tremendous amount of time and effort. That being said, the latest commit was nine months ago. I'm not trying to complain about this as I realize people have busy lives, but I am wondering if you plan on picking this back up or if it is abandoned.
Since I started this project I got a full time job working on something I find very compelling, and I doubt I will ever have time to focus on notty again. About a year ago, there was talk about incorporating the protocol into alacritty, and I think that is the most likely way for something based on notty to become actually usable.
I do think the project is dead :-\
That's a shame. Alacritty seems to be focused on performance, a bit like the suckless terminal. There are no other projects like notty, because most command-line-loving people are nostalgic and minimalist. I have 16gb of RAM and an i7 processor... speed is a worthy goal, but I'd rather use everything my machine has to offer. Even in the command line.
Totally makes sense, but I wish this still compiled... an excuse to finally learn some rust though I guess.
Reading https://github.com/withoutboats/notty/blob/master/docs/protocol.md I think that ESC based protocol is a dead end. Just for one reason - keyboard shortcuts. Once you switch latyout, all letters become invalid. Ideal protocol should be based on key codes that are exposer together with mapped chars. It should handle keypresses and contain cascading shortcut control to handle permissions for overriding critical system keys to user.
