Development Roadmap

[sedwards2009]

This issue is for tracking issue priorities and their rough order of implementation.

Note: This can change at anytime without warning. It might even just be out of date at times

• Add reload CSS command Add reload CSS command #26
• Option to remove the window title bar and use a themed one Option to remove the window title bar #27
• 🎁 Release new version
• Update the screenshots in the docs.
• Remove the context menus, trigger Command Palette instead Remove the context menus, trigger Command Palette instead #33
• More options for the 'show' command More options for the 'show' command #28 (internal file handling needs a make over first)
• More options for the 'from' command More options for the 'from' command #29
• Bug: Resizing the window is very slow Resizing the window is very slow #37
• Make the Tips more compact Make the Tips more compact #34
• Add "Reset VT" command Add reset VT command #31
• Add "Clear Scrollback" command Add Clear Scrollback command #39
• Rename Selection Mode to Cursor Mode Rename Selection Mode to Cursor Mode #32
• Per-tab Font sizing Shortcut for changing font size #36
• 🎁 Release new version
• Speed: DOM tree culling Speed: DOM tree culling #40
• 🎁 Release new version
• Limit the buffer size when reading from the pty Limit the buffer size when reading from the pty #43
• Keybindings with emacs style editing Keybindings with emacs style editing #42
• Bug: 'from' command with '--xargs' option fails when Python 2.7 is used 'from' command with '--xargs' option fails when Python 2.7 is used #44
• Incorrect rendering of unicode characters Incorrect rendering of unicode characters #46
• 🎁 Release new version
• Colour emoji (Linux)
• Alt modifier for backspace bug Alt modifier not send with back space #47
• 🎁 Release new version
• Command to set text viewer syntax highlighting and tab width.
• 🎁 Release new version
• Vertical splits and splits resizing
• 🎁 Release new version
• Horizontal splits and nesting
• 🎁 Release new version
• Drag and drop for tabs.
• Commands/shortcuts for moving tabs
• 🎁 Release new version
• Drag and drop command frames
• 🎁 Release new version
• Drag and split in gesture
• 🎁 Release new version
• Horizontal scrollbars when frame contents are too wide
• Lots of random bug fixes
• 🎁 Release new version
• Add "Shell Integration Inject" experimental feature.
• 🎁 Release new version
• Bug fixes
• 🎁 Release new version
• Bug fixes for layout glitches and misalignments.
• UI scaling
• Fix "Opening a new tab requires mouse click to start typing" Opening a new tab requires mouse click to start typing #60
• 🎁 Release new version
• Robust large file transfers Robust large file transfers #67
• 🎁 Release new version
• Add 'download' option to show command
• Add 'save' option to from command
• Random improvements
• 🎁 Release new version
• Random improvements
• Reorganise the Settings tab
• 🎁 Release new version
• Add configurable terminal/shell sessions
• 🎁 Release new version
• Add legacy windows terminal/shell sessions Non-Cygwin sessions on Windows #19
• Add support for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) support Windows Subsystem for Linux #86
• Add support for cmd.exe on Windows
• Make 'frames' optional when shell integration is active Make 'frames' optional when shell integration is active #90
• AltGr not working on Windows AltGr not working on Windows #87
• 🎁 Release new version
• Replace CodeMirror with Ace
• Improve multicursor commands Add commands for multi-cursor #109
• Support TextMate syntax highlighting themes for the text viewer
• 🎁 Release new version
• Bug fixes
• 🎁 Release new version
• Keyboard dead key input fix. No support for international keyboards with dead keys #113
• Bug fixes
• 🎁 Release new version
• Make keyboard shortcuts fully configurable
• 🎁 Release new version
• Port Atom's One Dark theme
• Add some more appearance settings
• 🎁 Release new version
• Tray icon and minimize to tray
• Global shortcuts
• 🎁 Release new version
• Context menus
• 🎁 Release new version
• Find in text
• 🎁 Release new version
• Bug fixes
• 🎁 Release new version
• Setting tab titles Renaming of tabs #157
• 🎁 Release new version
• Canvas based text rendering 🚀
• Proper 24bit color support
• Beautiful box drawing characters
• Curly and double underline styles
• Overstroke style
• 🎁 Release new version
• Cursor styles
• 🎁 Release new version
• Bug fix release
• 🎁 Release new version
• Unwrap lines when copying to clipboard Copying a wrapped line does not work as it should #69
• Bracketed paste
• Replace Emoji font with "Twitter Color Emoji" because EmojiOne isn't being updated for FOSS.
• 🎁 Release new version
• Framing or not depending on the command output size Framing or not depending on the command output size #194
• 🐛 Terminal changes color The background colour of the terminal seems to change for no reason since 0.43 #209
• 🎁 Release new version
• Background transparency (Windows 10) Background transparency #66
• 🐛 Terminal changes color (disable HW accel option) The background colour of the terminal seems to change for no reason since 0.43 #209
• 🐛 Won't start from KDE launcher. Won't start from KDE launcher. #124
• 🐛 Command with no output and a non-zero exit code breaks terminal tab. Command with no output and a non-zero exit code breaks terminal tab. #225
• 🎁 Release new version
• Background transparency (macOS)
• 🐛 fixes
• 🎁 Release new version
• Font ligatures Please add ligature support #187
• 🎁 Release new version
• 🐛 Bug fixes
• Bug: "Extraterm won't stay open after changing startup configs" Extraterm won't stay open after changing startup configs #246
• Bug: "Context menus in split-pane mode not displaying properly" Context menus in split-pane mode not displaying properly #220
• Bug: "Frame label/controls not visible with very long command" Frame label/controls not visible with very long command #239
• Bug: Add a Quit command bug with mac : with the command 'cmd+ Q' not exit #248
• Bug: "Rightmost tab invisible when tab count exceeds window width" Rightmost tab invisible when tab count exceeds window width #224
• 🎁 Release new version
• Bug "Atomic" UI themes are broken bug windows not start: screen with '+' not prompt #256
• 🎁 Release new version
• Extension control UI
• Extension API and SDK (initial)
• 🎁 Release new version
• Multiple windows Multiple windows #115
• 🎁 Release new version
• Support for multiple installed WSL distros support for multiple WSL clients #270
• Ctrl-backspace modifier not sent correctly Ctrl-backspace modifier not sent correctly #271
• 🎁 Release new version
• Improved font rendering Can anti-aliasing be disabled? #152
• GPU Accelerated rendering [Feature Request] GPU Acceleration #218
• 🎁 Release new version
• Setting default tab titles for sessions
• 🐛 "emacs render delay without X" emacs render delay without X #285
• Insert Emoji extension
• 🐛 Tab completion repeats the first character (oh-my-zsh) Tab completion repeats the first character (oh-my-zsh) #294
• 🎁 Release new version
• Fix memory leaks
• Add "paste from selection clipboard" option to mouse options on Linux. Copy/paste does not work between other windows and extraterm on Linux #195
• 🎁 Release new version
• 🐛 Initial directory couldn't be found for Windows sessions Initial directory couldn't be found #310
• Support hyperlink command/escape sequence Support hyperlink command/escape sequence #92
• 🎁 Release new version
• Link detection Feature request: link detection #173
• 🎁 Release new version
• Random bug fixes
• 🎁 Release new version
• Autocomplete Auto-completion based on buffer #264
• 🎁 Release new version
• "Open terminal here" desktop integration Windows Context Menu #330
• 🎁 Release new version
• New release checking and notification
• Scripting Extraterm from the command line Scripting Extraterm from the command line #132
• 🎁 Release new version
• Zoom option when viewing images Zoom option when viewing images #118

Unsorted:

• Open new terminal in same directory
• Go to Line Number
• Scratch pad tabs
• Line numbers config for executed commands
• Frame collapse/expand feature Frame collapse/expand feature #35

[cprog]

Hi,
Could you add quake mode support ?

[sedwards2009]

@cprog I've put your request in issue #93.

[cprog]

@sedwards2009 Thank you.

[lou-bi]

Hi, hope it's the place.
Do you plan to integrate a programmatic way of openning multiple Extraterm with own process running in?
Good job for the almost fullfilled roadmap !

[sedwards2009]

@BonLouis can you make a new issue here and describe in more detail what you mean? I don't quite understand what you are requesting.

[sedwards2009]

@BonLouis Also, the roadmap isn't approaching fulfillment. I just need to update it and fill in my stuff to do. 😄

[joedf]

add Quake mode and fullscreen to that list. 😎

[sedwards2009]

@joedf it is possible to set a global shortcut to open up Extraterm. So you can get fairly close to a quake mode.

No plans for full screen beyond just plain old maximising the window.

[talicz]

Hi @sedwards2009, I have been using Terminator for Linux for years. What I love there is that you can split the view to see more consoles in a single Tab (similar to what you do in Extraterm), but you can also group all the terminals within the Tab to type and execute the same commands on all grouped command lines at once. This is super handy when working with multiple nodes of the same cluster. (usually system upgrades, etc)

I cannot find a single terminal emulator for Windows that would offer me this option. Please consider adding to the roadmap. Extraterm is a very nice piece of work.

Additional info:
Windows offer a Linux Subsystem where Linux apps can be run.
WSL2 ... I intended to use Terminal there, but the problem is that it does not work together with corporate VPN. (I found many complains on web about it.)
WSL1 ... This one works fine with corporate VPNs, but does not run GUI based apps (like Terminator)

This is the reason why I am looking for a new Windows-based Terminator alternative.

Update:
On the roadmap of Microsoft Windows Terminal for 3 years
microsoft/terminal#2634

[Belgabor]

@talicz

I cannot find a single terminal emulator for Windows that would offer me this option. Please consider adding to the roadmap. Extraterm is a very nice piece of work.

Technically (probably) not really the right place to say this, but Tabby can do that if you can deal with an Electron based terminal emulator.

[sedwards2009]

@Belgabor How does Tabby deal with it? How are the tabs selected which should receive the input? Is it just all of the tabs/panes in a window?

Splits and "input broadcast" are not the same thing. One way to do "input broadcast" would be first a way to "link" any number of terminals (regardless of which window they are in) and then have input to a linked terminal automatically be sent to the others.

[Belgabor]

How does Tabby deal with it? How are the tabs selected which should receive the input? Is it just all of the tabs/panes in a window?

It's not a feature I have use for, so I'm not really familiar with it's intricacies. As far as I can see from a quick test you can focus either everything (aka all panes on all tabs) or just all the panes on one tab,