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Feature Vision Discussion: Miscellaneous

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Dominant language
Rust
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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Description

This issue is part of the larger vision discussion managed in #63 to brainstorm and prioritize ideas around features that would make reedline as a line editor for you both viable as well as pleasant to use. Feel free to up-vote features you depend on in other tools/shells as well as suggest new ideas!

Miscellaneous Features and Goals

  • Validation to trigger multiline on incomplete lines
  • Tested behaviour under various environments
    • OSes
    • Terminal emulators: gnome-terminal, iTerm, alacritty, windows terminal
    • Multiplexers: screen, tmux
    • As ssh session
  • possible plugins to use file searches and terminal browsers: fzf, skim, broot, zoxide, ranger, etc
  • Responsive resizing

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with the larger vision discussion in issue #63 and split the unchecked goals into separately scoped work: environment testing, plugin integrations, and responsive resizing. Done requires an agreed priority and completed checklist items for the selected scope across the listed environments or integrations.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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