This is my fork of scroll.
Mostly I'll just add nix(os) buildscripts and might tweak the bindings a little.
I'd might like to work on an external pip feature like in
(this st patch)[https://st.suckless.org/patches/externalpipe/]. But I am pretty
sure my C KungFu is not good enough.
Just run nix-build or nix-build default.nix. The binary can be found at result/bin/st.
In my configuration.nix have (among overlay definitions) this:
nixpkgs.overlays =
let
scroll_src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
owner = "agschaid";
repo = "scroll";
rev = "a3078d4e5c956b9cfe483c8f500c8994d01e54d0";
sha256 = "1d1lsqafkcia3s86cbmpgw7dz9qp5mwra8s0cg5x3a86p81cl1ca";
};
src_overlays = self: super: {
scroll = import "${st_src}/default.nix";
};
other_overlays = self: super: {
# other stuff
};
in
[other_overlays src_overlays];
# then install scroll as usual package
Not sure if this is the most elegant or idiomatic way but it works.
This program provides a scroll back buffer for a terminal like st(1). It should run on any Unix-like system.
At the moment it is in an experimental state. Its not recommended for productive use.
The initial version of this program is from Roberto E. Vargas Caballero: https://lists.suckless.org/dev/1703/31256.html
What is the state of scroll?
The project is faced with some hard facts, that our original plan is not doable as we thought in the first place:
-
[crtl]+[e] is used in emacs mode (default) on the shell to jump to the end of the line. But, its also used so signal a scroll down mouse event from terminal emulators to the shell an other programs.
- A workaround is to use vi mode in the shell.
- Or to give up mouse support (default behavior)
-
scroll could not handle backward cursor jumps and editing of old lines properly. We just handle current line editing and switching between alternative screens (curses mode). For a proper end user experience we would need to write a completely new terminal emulator like screen or tmux.
What is the performance impact of scroll?
indirect OpenBSD
0x 7.53 s
1x 10.10 s
2x 12.00 s
3x 13.73 s