[IPython-dev] Public-domain browser terminal interface

[Brian Granger]

Yes, that is really great! That will make it much easier to offer the
terminal in contexts where node.js isn't in the backend. Fantastic!

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> The author of GraphTerm has just contacted me to say that he's pulled out
> the plain web terminal component - a combination of frontend stuff from
> term.js and updated Python code on the backend (so we don't have to handle
> more JS than we have to). It's BSD licensed, based on Tornado, uses
> websockets and appears to support Python 3, and Dr. Saravanan says he'd be
> happy to help us integrate it into IPython.
>
> https://github.com/mitotic/pyxterm
>
> Thomas
>
>
> On 8 July 2014 13:42, William Stein <wstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:26 PM, William Stein <wstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> What about term.js?  It's MIT licensed (partly due to me asking
>> >> nicely), and is what many online IDE projects (including
>> >> SageMathCloud) use:
>> >>
>> >>    https://github.com/chjj/term.js/
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks, that's the link I had in mind!!
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Maybe it isn't an option for you because the backend is Node.js
>> >> instead of Python.  I just wanted to double check, just in case.
>> >
>> >
>> > Not a problem at all. We're thinking of this for the multiuser server,
>> > which
>> > has a Node component as well, so it's perfect.
>> >
>> > We might take you up on your 'pile of code' offer later, but we'll let
>> > you
>> > know if we have the bandwidth for it. To start with, we'll probably be
>> > OK
>> > with the plain vanilla code as-is.
>> >
>> > Thanks again!
>>
>> One particular thing I added was resizing the backend pty in response
>> to changing the terminal size.  This involved a little bit of new
>> tricky node.js code.
>> It works in node 0.8.x, but didn't work _last time I tried_ with Node
>> 0.10.x, which is why all SageMathCloud projects are still running
>> 0.8.x.
>>
>> Anyway, if you guys go with term.js you'll inevitably run into the
>> same issue, so keep me posted.
>>
>>  -- W/illiam
>>
>> >
>> > f
>> >
>> >
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