Building simple UI within wezterm

[pombadev]

We have following components in wezterm:

I was wondering if this is something that interest you to expose lua api to build a dmenu like ui within wezterm.

My use case is:

• Select a text in the terminal and invoke a menu to perform various actions on that selection, eg:

  • Google that text with default browser
  • Open a url from one of the available browser
  • Copy and paste it back in terminal
  • etc

• VSCode like theme picker

Something like this

[wez]

Take a look at https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/keyassignment/InputSelector.html

[pombadev]

Thank you for your hard work!, currently i have cobbled up these with but it covers up the entire terminal window.

• InputSelector
  

• PromptInputLine
  

But IMHO the Modal component looks great.

Feel free to mark this discussion as answered.

[GV14982]

I agree that having access to the sort of "floating pane" options would be great. Any idea how difficult that might be? I could be down to work on it. I see #5576 is an open PR. I suppose we could also just use this when it's done?

[basus]

I came across this discussion while trying to figure out if I could build something like Emacs' which-key or Helix's help popups. I think that once floating panes are merged, we could rebuild the modals and overlays in terms of floating panes. That would help them all have a more uniform look-and-feel.