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Serial Client for DevOps

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11 pointskingtoolbox11 comments

I don't understand; the only code in this repo is a third-party regular expression library. The readme says "All source codes [...] are provided under the terms of Apache-2.0 license", but where is it?

The dev wrote this in a Github issue earlier in the year:

> Currently, Windterm is allowed for personal stuff only, non-personal use is not in Windterm's short-term plan, up to now, the key issue is to finish all planned features, and make it into an amazing terminal. This is my dream.

> For source code issue, it has no relation with monetization, Windterm was developed and referenced from may OSS, now it's time to feedback to OSC. So part of core source will be opened once finished all new features with enough time, please pay more attention for more version and source code in future.

> As for your testing in commercial environment, only short-term testing within 30 days is allowed. I have remarked this in license for your well confirmation and permit.

Then a month ago updated the issue to say

> From the version 1.3, the license has been changed and WindTerm can be used for commercial and non-commercial purposes without limitations. Please keep follow and thanks.

He didn't clarify if it would be open source. Or how much of the core would be.

More source code is under cleaning and will be released, and the published regular expression library is heavily modified and not original.

> Staring from this version, source code will be gradually released under the terms of Apache-2.0 license as promised.

I very much like this. How does one add tools to WindEdit?

Have you considered combining windedit into windterm? I very much like the vscode remote-ssh extension, but dislike that it requires a heavy footprint on the server. I feel like you could quite easily get the same functionality from combining windedit with windterm.

Also, have you considered creating a framework for a simple linter?

I look forward to progress!

Thanks!

I am very glad you like WindTerm/WindEdit and made very good suggestions, thank you.

Although I haven't considered creating a framework for a simple linter, but WindTerm and WindEdit are originally one during development. In fact, there are four kits in the unreleased tool: terminal (WindTerm), editor (WindEdit), browser and file manager (including local filer like windows explorer and remote filer like Sftp client), They complement each other and form an efficient tool.

For example, WindEdit has a special function that can read virtual huge files. This feature is especially designed for remote files. Imagine that there is a very large file on the server that can be read and written directly without downloading it. Just like playing a video online, you only need to get a small piece of content currently read and written. That would be very efficient, especially when reading huge logs.

I don't think putting a stub on the server is the correct solution, because we cannot put stubs on every server.

I will continue to work hard to build better tools and hope you can use them happily.

This is such a bizarre way to build and release a project based on my 5 minute reading of the issues and the comments in this post.

What is the point of the syntax highlighting?

The first thing is to provide more colors for easier reading. Folding, outlining and auto completing are also need syntax highlighting to analyze the output.

Specifically - why is "can be" in "156 packages can be updated" highlighted, and why is "login" in "Last login:" highlighted?

Which words are highlighted is determined by the configuration file. For example linux.lexer in "windterm-install-path/terminal/schemes/linux" defines how to highlight and linux.fold defines how to fold the output.

You can modify the configuration file to highlight any words you want to highlight.

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