zed/crates/terminal_view
Bennet Bo Fenner ea4419076e
Add preview tabs (#9125)
This PR implements the preview tabs feature from VSCode.
More details and thanks for the head start of the implementation here
#6782.

Here is what I have observed from using the vscode implementation ([x]
-> already implemented):
- [x] Single click on project file opens tab as preview
- [x] Double click on item in project panel opens tab as permanent
- [x] Double click on the tab makes it permanent
- [x] Navigating away from the tab makes the tab permanent and the new
tab is shown as preview (e.g. GoToReference)
- [x] Existing preview tab is reused when opening a new tab
- [x] Dragging tab to the same/another panel makes the tab permanent
- [x] Opening a tab from the file finder makes the tab permanent
- [x] Editing a preview tab will make the tab permanent
- [x] Using the space key in the project panel opens the tab as preview
- [x] Handle navigation history correctly (restore a preview tab as
preview as well)
- [x] Restore preview tabs after restarting
- [x] Support opening files from file finder in preview mode (vscode:
"Enable Preview From Quick Open")
 
I need to do some more testing of the vscode implementation, there might
be other behaviors/workflows which im not aware of that open an item as
preview/make them permanent.

Showcase:


https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/assets/53836821/9be16515-c740-4905-bea1-88871112ef86


TODOs
- [x] Provide `enable_preview_tabs` setting
- [x] Write some tests
- [x] How should we handle this in collaboration mode (have not tested
the behavior so far)
- [x] Keyboard driven usage (probably need workspace commands)
- [x] Register `TogglePreviewTab` only when setting enabled?
- [x] Render preview tabs in tab switcher as italic
- [x] Render preview tabs in image viewer as italic
- [x] Should this be enabled by default (it is the default behavior in
VSCode)?
- [x] Docs

Future improvements (out of scope for now):
- Support preview mode for find all references and possibly other
multibuffers (VSCode: "Enable Preview From Code Navigation")


Release Notes:

- Added preview tabs
([#4922](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4922)).

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Co-authored-by: Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
2024-04-11 23:09:12 +02:00
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scripts Fix typos 2023-06-02 22:02:19 -04:00
src Add preview tabs (#9125) 2024-04-11 23:09:12 +02:00
Cargo.toml Move Clippy configuration to the workspace level (#8891) 2024-03-05 12:01:17 -05:00
LICENSE-GPL chore: Change AGPL-licensed crates to GPL (except for collab) (#4231) 2024-01-24 00:26:58 +01:00
README.md vim . to replay 2023-09-06 13:49:55 -06:00

Design notes:

This crate is split into two conceptual halves:

  • The terminal.rs file and the src/mappings/ folder, these contain the code for interacting with Alacritty and maintaining the pty event loop. Some behavior in this file is constrained by terminal protocols and standards. The Zed init function is also placed here.
  • Everything else. These other files integrate the Terminal struct created in terminal.rs into the rest of GPUI. The main entry point for GPUI is the terminal_view.rs file and the modal.rs file.

ttys are created externally, and so can fail in unexpected ways. However, GPUI currently does not have an API for models than can fail to instantiate. TerminalBuilder solves this by using Rust's type system to split tty instantiation into a 2 step process: first attempt to create the file handles with TerminalBuilder::new(), check the result, then call TerminalBuilder::subscribe(cx) from within a model context.

The TerminalView struct abstracts over failed and successful terminals, passing focus through to the associated view and allowing clients to build a terminal without worrying about errors.

#Input

There are currently many distinct paths for getting keystrokes to the terminal:

  1. Terminal specific characters and bindings. Things like ctrl-a mapping to ASCII control character 1, ANSI escape codes associated with the function keys, etc. These are caught with a raw key-down handler in the element and are processed immediately. This is done with the try_keystroke() method on Terminal

  2. GPU Action handlers. GPUI clobbers a few vital keys by adding bindings to them in the global context. These keys are synthesized and then dispatched through the same try_keystroke() API as the above mappings

  3. IME text. When the special character mappings fail, we pass the keystroke back to GPUI to hand it to the IME system. This comes back to us in the View::replace_text_in_range() method, and we then send that to the terminal directly, bypassing try_keystroke().

  4. Pasted text has a separate pathway.

Generally, there's a distinction between 'keystrokes that need to be mapped' and 'strings which need to be written'. I've attempted to unify these under the '.try_keystroke()' API and the .input() API (which try_keystroke uses) so we have consistent input handling across the terminal