Anthias : An extended terminal

[ePharaoh]

Hi,

I am developing Anthias. As described in the website,

Anthias is (or rather will be) an extended terminal with support for features like

• Command-line completion
• Syntax highlighting of command line
• Directory browsing (in the same spirit of Norton Commander, Krusader, etc)

Key design goals include

• Support for all existing programs that use the ANSI terminal. Only the shell will need to be modified (if it wants to use Anthias features).
• Keyboard navigability. Most operations should be accessible with simple keystrokes.
• Support for SSH sessions
• Support for multiple shells
• NO KIO support. Support for only the vanilla filesystem.

The next feature I want to implement is syntax highlighting. Since I am not an expert in Qt, any help is welcome. If anybody would like to join in, let me know.

Note that, the program is still in mockup stage. And, it is based on Qt4/KDE4.

[e8johan]

Looks promissing. Will you be integrating support of kparts to show file contents or such?

[ePharaoh]

Looks promissing. Will you be integrating support of kparts to show file contents or such?

Hmm.. good idea, if implemented on a small scale. We could probably use some kind of preview feature. For example, typing

catx icon.png

could show a preview of the image in a little embedded window in the terminal.

Though, I woudn't favour a full-fledge embedded picture editor, for example. IMO, it would go against the simple terminal (console) paradigm.

[mhoover]

Sounds fun. Command-line completion is cool.

The background desktop transparency in the Apple Terminal would be a neat feature. The other day I was showing a friend an app from the command line, and he didn't even notice the app because he was so impressed with the semi-transparent command line.

[jwintz]

Will Anthias be crossplatform ? I mean only QT4 ?

Very good idea indeed.

[kernel_panic]

could you make the terminal widget accesible for developers?
i mean make a custom widget, so that other developers can integrate a terminal in their app.