* Add the hidden alias `-e` for the `start` subcommand.
resolves: 2782
* add alias description to help text
Co-authored-by: Wez Furlong <wez@wezfurlong.org>
Right now wezterm already allows to pass a cmdline to execute (instead
of the shell) by calling "wezterm start" with trailing arguments, e.g.
wezterm start -- bash
However, most other terminals implement this via a "-e" option. This
seems to be adopted widely in the wild, such that some third-party
frameworks just blindly expect the user's terminal to use the "-e"
option for this.
One such notable framework is kio from KDE Plasma, that calls the user's
terminal in that way when launching a desktop file that uses
Terminal=true. [1]
To solve this problem, we add a compatibility layer by adding a dummy
"-e" option. This will then consume the "-e" leaving the remaining
arguments as trailing arguments, which will later be consumed by our
existing implementation in the "prog" option.
Given that clap does not really support multiple arguments writing to
the same destination [2], this seems like the most sane implementation,
even if it is a hack.
It seems to work reliable, even for edge cases where we pass wezterm
options as trailing arguments, e.g. the following will just work and do
the expected outcome (and will **not** parse "--position" as a wezterm
argument):
wezterm start -e echo --position 10,10
Fixes#2622
[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459616
[2] https://github.com/clap-rs/clap/issues/3146
Using the new publish/discovery stuff from the past couple of commits,
if we can find a matching socket path for a running gui, and the
configuration is likely a match, then use the mux protocol to talk
to the already running gui and ask it to spawn the equivalent program
into the same process.
refs: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/discussions/1486
When spawned with no WEZTERM_UNIX_SOCKET environment set,
we now prefer to resolve the gui instance, falling back to
the mux if it doesn't look like the gui is running.
`wezterm cli --prefer-mux` will use the original behavior of
trying to resolve the path from the unix domain in the config.
Allow overriding ssh config options from the command line.
I don't want to replicate the many options that `ssh(1)` has;
this just exposes the `-oNAME=VALUE` syntax. The config names
are those from `man ssh_config`; `IdentityFile` rather than `-i`.
refs: #457
This commit expands on the prior commits to introduce the concept
of per-window configuration overrides.
Each TermWindow maintains json compatible object value holding
a map of config key -> config value overrides.
When the window notices that the config has changed, the config
file is loaded, the CLI overrides (if any) are applied, and then
finally the per-window overrides, before attempting to coerce
the resultant lua value into a Config object.
This mechanism has some important constraints:
* Only data can be assigned to the overrides. Closures or special
lua userdata object handles are not permitted. This is because
the lifetime of those objects is tied to the lua context in which
they were parsed, which doesn't really exist in the context of
the window.
* Only simple keys are supported for the per-window overrides.
That means that trying to override a very specific field of
a deeply structured value (eg: something like `font_rules[1].italic = false`
isn't able to be expressed in this scheme. Instead, you would
need to assign the entire `font_rules` key. I don't anticipate
this being a common desire at this time; if more advance manipulations
are required, then I have some thoughts on an event where arbitrary
lua modifications can be applied.
The implementation details are fairly straight-forward, but in testing
the two examplary use cases I noticed that some hangovers from
supporting overrides for a couple of font related options meant that the
window-specific config wasn't being honored. I've removed the code that
handled those overrides in favor of the newer more general CLI option
override support, and threaded the config through to the font code.
closes: #469closes: #329
`wezterm`, `wezterm-gui` and `wezterm-mux-server` now all support
a new `--config name=value` CLI option that can be specified
multiple times to supply config overrides.
Since there isn't a simple, direct way to update arbitrary fields
of a struct in Rust (there's no runtime reflection), we do this
work in lua.
The config file returns a config table. Before that is mapped
to the Rust Config type, we have a new phase that takes each
of the `--config` values and applies it to the config table.
For example, you can think of configuration as working like this
if wezterm is started as `wezterm --config foo="bar"`:
```lua
config = load_config_file();
config.foo = "bar";
return config;
```
The `--config name=value` option is split into `name` and `value`
parts. The name part is literally concatenated with `config` in
the generated lua code, so the name MUST be valid in that context.
The `value` portion is literally inserted verbatim as the rvalue in the
assignment. Not quoting or other processing is done, which means
that you can (and must!) use the same form that you would use in
the config file for the RHS. Strings must be quoted. This allows
you to use more complicated expressions on the right hand side,
such as:
```
wezterm --config 'font=wezterm.font("Fira Code")'
```
The overrides stick for the lifetime of the process; even if
you change the config file and reload, then the value specified
by the override will take precedence.
refs: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/469
refs: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/499
This commit moves a bunch of stuff around such that `wezterm` is now a
lighter-weight executable that knows how to spawn the gui, talk to
the mux or emit some escape sequences for imgcat.
The gui portion has been moved into `wezterm-gui`, a separate executable
that doesn't know about the CLI or imgcat functionality.
Importantly, `wezterm.exe` is no longer a window subsystem executable
on windows, which makes interactions such as `wezterm -h` feel more
natural when spawned from `cmd`, and should allow
`type foo.png | wezterm imgcat` to work as expected.
That said, I've only tested this on linux so far, and there's a good
chance that something mac or windows specific is broken by this
change and will need fixing up.
refs: #301
