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#19 real-time output from commands

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2002-09-05
2002-09-05
Rob Helmer
No

using the new "pipe" method of the Shell class, we can
get real-time output from VCS or File commands ( right
now we just get a reference to a scalar back, "pipe"
essentially hands you a filehandle that is an open pipe
to a command, so you get it's output real-time ).

I've done a proof-of-concept in my own checkout of
SandWeb, but it's such a hack I'm not going to check it
in ( there will need to be alot of changes to make this
fit cleanly into SandWeb's structure, which I'm willing
to do after 1.0 :) ).

It would also be really cool if we could make the
browser window stay focused on the *bottom* of the
page, the same way a normal terminal emulator does (
browser windows focus on the top of the page in all the
browsers I've ever used ).

This would be nice with the colorized VCS output,
because you'd see things like a red conflict marker
scrolling by as you updated ( command-line CVS would be
much better with colorization too I think ).

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