feat: live collaborative terminal sharing - #35
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…stream This allows zmx to directly inject terminal state into terminal emulators that speak libghostty's snapshot api. This only impacts terminal rehydration of clients when they first attach to a zmx session. What does this mean? Terminal emulators that support loading libghostty snapshots directly can receive a perfect recreation of zmx's session instead of relying on us re-printing the ansi bytestream into every client that connects to a zmx session. Right now only `monstar` has experimental support for the snapshot api, but this is how it would work: ```bash zmx attach snap.1 // do some terminal stuff // close terminal and then use monstar: monstar --attach="zmx attach -s snap.1" // zmx will directly load the underlying `libghostty.Terminal` into `monstar` ``` Link: rockorager/monstar#35
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…stream This allows zmx to directly inject terminal state into terminal emulators that speak libghostty's snapshot api. This only impacts terminal rehydration of clients when they first attach to a zmx session. What does this mean? Terminal emulators that support loading libghostty snapshots directly can receive a perfect recreation of zmx's session instead of relying on us re-printing the ansi bytestream into every client that connects to a zmx session. Right now only `monstar` has experimental support for the snapshot api, but this is how it would work: ```bash zmx attach snap.1 // do some terminal stuff // close terminal and then use monstar: monstar --attach="zmx attach -s snap.1" // zmx will directly load the underlying `libghostty.Terminal` into `monstar` ``` Link: rockorager/monstar#35
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…stream This allows zmx to directly inject terminal state into terminal emulators that speak libghostty's snapshot api. This only impacts terminal rehydration of clients when they first attach to a zmx session. What does this mean? Terminal emulators that support loading libghostty snapshots directly can receive a perfect recreation of zmx's session instead of relying on us re-printing the ansi bytestream into every client that connects to a zmx session. Right now only `monstar` has experimental support for the snapshot api, but this is how it would work: ```bash zmx attach snap.1 // do some terminal stuff // close terminal and then use monstar: monstar --attach="zmx attach -s snap.1" // zmx will directly load the underlying `libghostty.Terminal` into `monstar` ``` Link: rockorager/monstar#35
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…stream This allows zmx to directly inject terminal state into terminal emulators that speak libghostty's snapshot api. This only impacts terminal rehydration of clients when they first attach to a zmx session. What does this mean? Terminal emulators that support loading libghostty snapshots directly can receive a perfect recreation of zmx's session instead of relying on us re-printing the ansi bytestream into every client that connects to a zmx session. Right now only `monstar` has experimental support for the snapshot api, but this is how it would work: ```bash zmx attach snap.1 // do some terminal stuff // close terminal and then use monstar: monstar --attach="zmx attach -s snap.1" // zmx will directly load the underlying `libghostty.Terminal` into `monstar` ``` Link: rockorager/monstar#35
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…stream This allows zmx to directly inject terminal state into terminal emulators that speak libghostty's snapshot api. This only impacts terminal rehydration of clients when they first attach to a zmx session. What does this mean? Terminal emulators that support loading libghostty snapshots directly can receive a perfect recreation of zmx's session instead of relying on us re-printing the ansi bytestream into every client that connects to a zmx session. Right now only `monstar` has experimental support for the snapshot api, but this is how it would work: ```bash zmx attach snap.1 // do some terminal stuff // close terminal and then use monstar: monstar --attach="zmx attach -s snap.1" // zmx will directly load the underlying `libghostty.Terminal` into `monstar` ``` Link: rockorager/monstar#35
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…stream This allows zmx to directly inject terminal state into terminal emulators that speak libghostty's snapshot api. This only impacts terminal rehydration of clients when they first attach to a zmx session. What does this mean? Terminal emulators that support loading libghostty snapshots directly can receive a perfect recreation of zmx's session instead of relying on us re-printing the ansi bytestream into every client that connects to a zmx session. Right now only `monstar` has experimental support for the snapshot api, but this is how it would work: ```bash zmx attach snap.1 // do some terminal stuff // close terminal and then use monstar: monstar --attach="zmx attach -s snap.1" // zmx will directly load the underlying `libghostty.Terminal` into `monstar` ``` Link: rockorager/monstar#35
This uses libghostty's experimental snapshot api to stream a terminal to/from a subprocess via stdin/stdout pipes. It supports saving and restoring snapshots from a file or even terminal sharing. It shares the entire terminal state and scrollback history of libghostty.Terminal. Link: ghostty-org/ghostty#13534
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…stream This allows zmx to directly inject terminal state into terminal emulators that speak libghostty's snapshot api. This only impacts terminal rehydration of clients when they first attach to a zmx session. What does this mean? Terminal emulators that support loading libghostty snapshots directly can receive a perfect recreation of zmx's session instead of relying on us re-printing the ansi bytestream into every client that connects to a zmx session. Right now only `monstar` has experimental support for the snapshot api, but this is how it would work: ```bash zmx attach snap.1 // do some terminal stuff // close terminal and then use monstar: monstar --attach="zmx attach -s snap.1" // zmx will directly load the underlying `libghostty.Terminal` into `monstar` ``` Link: rockorager/monstar#35
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This uses libghostty's experimental snapshot api to stream a terminal to/from a subprocess via stdin/stdout pipes. It supports saving and restoring snapshots from a file or even terminal sharing across a network. It shares the entire terminal state and scrollback history of
libghostty.Terminal.Link: ghostty-org/ghostty#13534
Link: neurosnap/zmx#243
Demo:
monstar-share.mp4