Re: [dwm] [ANNOUNCE] dvtm-0.4

From: Ritesh Kumar <ritesh_AT_cs.unc.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:37:07 -0500

On Feb 6, 2008 11:38 AM, Marc Andre Tanner <mat_AT_brain-dump.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> dvtm-0.4 is out, changes are:
>
> * Only draw borders where necessary (titlebar + vertical separator)
> http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/#screenshots
>
> * Respect cursor visibility of apps running within dvtm
>
> * Autoquit feature, dvtm quits when the last shell is closed
>
> * Support for window title escape sequence (xtermset -T title)
>
> * Links against ncurses by default
>
> * Compilation fix for NetBSD (hopefully)
>
> * Some bugfixes and code cleanups
>
> Remember to do a make unicode if you have an UTF-8 locale.
>
> http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/dvtm-0.4.tar.gz
>
> Below is a list of TODO items for future versions:
>
> * implement tagging, there is already a tagging branch which contains
> my current code in the git repository but i still need to figure
> out some sane keybindings.
>
> * terminal emulation fixes: make arrow keys work within vim (without
> the TERM=linux workaround). Fix a problem with the keypad when dvtm
> is launched via putty
>
> * implement a command mode (i am not yet sure about this one)
>
> * scrollback history support (this is a low priority item for me)
>
> Apart from that i consider dvtm feature complete.
>
>
Really nice work Marc. I welcome all the changes in dvtm 0.4.
Also, I now think that the ctrl g + <num> shortcut is much more convenient
than the command mode idea I had proposed... so may be you can strike that
item off the TODO list all together :)

_r
Received on Wed Feb 06 2008 - 21:37:10 UTC

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