Add some split screen examples

[bpolaszek]

Hello there,

That plugin looks awesome, but it lacks a little documentation on how to split the screen. For example, I have no idea on how I could separate the screen in 2 rows, 6 columns, to have 12 even sub-screens.

A more detailed example section would be very welcome, as that plugin sounds really promising!

Thank you,
Ben

[bet4it]

You should first split screen to your desired layout in tmux by C-a " and C-a %, then use command tmux list-windows -F "#{window_layout}" to get the layout string.

[bet4it]

Or you could try hyperlayout if all the panes have the same size.

[jedis00]

Also have the same issue. Tried installing the sample in .hyperinator. It says it loads and does nothing. README vaguely mentions a .tmuxinator directory, but doesn't say what to do with it.

[bet4it]

@jedis00 Oh sorry, .tmuxinator is a typo and I will fix it later.
Post your config and I will check it for you.

[jedis00]

@jedis00 Oh sorry, .tmuxinator is a typo and I will fix it later.
Post your config and I will check it for you.

It was a copy/paste of your advanced example into ~/.hyperinator/test.yml.

Loaded it and it said it loaded but the panes didn’t change. Restarting and doing a reload didn’t help.

[bet4it]

it said it loaded

What's the output?

[jedis00]

@bet4it Output below. The other thing is, I'm using this on Windows 10. Hyperinator is using the deprecated path to hyper.js, looking in ~/hyper.js. That file is copied elsewhere and removed in the latest Hyper builds, so I had to create a symlink to get it to work within Git Bash...

jedis@local /d/files
$ npm install -g hyperinator
C:\Users\jedis\AppData\Roaming\npm\hyperinator -> C:\Users\jedis\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\hyperinator\bin\hyperinator
C:\Users\jedis\AppData\Roaming\npm
--- hyperinator@0.3.4
+-- debug@4.1.1
| --- ms@2.1.2
+-- js-yaml@3.13.1
| +-- argparse@1.0.10
| | --- sprintf-js@1.0.3
| --- esprima@4.0.1
--- untildify@3.0.3
jedis@local /d/files
$ hyper i hyperinator
hyperinator installed successfully!
jedis@local /d/files
$ mkdir ~/.hyperinator
jedis@local /d/files
$ nano ~/.hyperinator/test.yml
jedis@local /d/files
$ hyperinator load test
Can't find hyperinator plugin in ~/.hyper.js.
jedis@local /d/files
$ ln -s /c/Users/jedis/AppData/Roaming/Hyper/.hyper.js ~/.hyper.js
jedis@local /d/files
$ hyperinator load test
[hyperinator config]:C:\Users\jedis.hyperinator\test.yml

Contents of ~/.hyperinator/test.yml
start_directory: ~/
windows:

• layout: e349,237x48,0,0{144x48,0,0,152,92x48,145,0[92x32,145,0,153,92x15,145,33,154]}
  panes:
  • shell_command:
    • echo 'Load demo layout!' > /tmp/test.txt
    • cat /tmp/test.txt
      focus: True
  • shell_command:
    • pwd
      start_directory: /tmp/
  • echo 'Hello world!'
    focus: True
• layout: f8cc,237x48,0,0{164x48,0,0,152,72x48,165,0,153}
  panes:
  • shell_command:
    • emacs -nw
      focus: True
  start_directory: /etc

[jedis00]

@bet4it I'd like to be able to have something like this restored when I launch Hyper:

https://i.imgur.com/ztsADpW.png

[bet4it]

@jedis00 I just published a new release, hyperinator should work on Windows now. Can you try it?
Remember to npm update -g hyperinator.
Your config:

windows:
- layout: 97b9,181x40,0,0{59x40,0,0,0,59x40,60,0[59x20,60,0,1,59x19,60,21,4],61x40,120,0[61x20,120,0,2,61x19,120,21,3]}
  panes:
  - echo '1'
  - echo '2'
  - echo '3'
  - echo '4'
  - echo '5'

[jedis00]

@bet4it Thanks! I removed the binary and plugin and reinstalled. Still seeing the same thing. It says it loads, but the window stays the same. Tried a full reload and relaunched, but I still have the one pane. There aren't any errors, it just doesn't appear to do anything.

Mon Apr 27 2020  9:35:08 AM
jedis@local /d/files
$ hyperinator load multi
[hyperinator config: C:\Users\jedis\.hyperinator\multi.yml]

[jedis00]

Found that this breaks CTRL+SHIFT+D to open a new pane. Gives a javascript error:

Uncaught exception: Error: Cannot create process, error code: 267 at new WindowsPtyAgent

If I close Hyper and relaunch without loading the config, CTRL+SHIFT+D works as expected.

[bet4it]

Oh that's a bit tricky.
I use Hyper on Win10 with bash.exe provided by Git-bash as default shell, and everything works fine.
I understand your problem. I'm not sure if that's because I installed windows-build-tools ( npm install --global windows-build-tools), it seems that it configured some terminal configs.
Are there any useful messages in Hyper's developer tools?
As for the error, do you install hypercwd?

[jedis00]

@bet4it Same. Yes, I am using hypercwd, and it is setting my directory correctly when Hyper fires up Git Bash.

// for setting shell arguments (i.e. for using interactive shellArgs: ['-i']) // by default ['--login'] will be used shellArgs: ['--command=/usr/bin/bash.exe', '-l', '-i']

hypercwd: { initialWorkingDirectory: 'D:\\files' }

plugins: [ "hyper-search", "hyper-pane", "hypercwd", "hyper-systray", "hyper-save-windowstate", "hyperinator" ]

I ran the npm install --global windows-build-tools command and also updated npm to the latest stable version.

(re)loading renderer plugins
bundle.js:1 Plugin hyper-search (0.4.0) loaded.
bundle.js:1 Plugin hyper-pane (2.1.5) loaded.
bundle.js:1 Plugin hypercwd (1.4.0) loaded.
bundle.js:1 Plugin hyper-systray (1.0.0) loaded.
bundle.js:1 Plugin hyper-save-windowstate (1.0.5) loaded.
bundle.js:1 Plugin hyperinator (0.4.0) loaded.
C:\Users\jedis\AppData\Roaming\Hyper.hyper_plugins\node_modules\hyper-save-windowstate\electron-window-state.js:57 0 0 1920 1080
C:\Users\jedis\AppData\Roaming\Hyper.hyper_plugins\node_modules\hyper-save-windowstate\electron-window-state.js:58 430 414 1133 540
index.html:36 total init time 582.1049999999559

I commented out hypercwd, and CTRL+SHIFT+D does not give an error anymore. hyper-pane opens a new pane. But I am still not seeing any window layout from hyperinator. Should it take effect immediately after running hyperinator load multi -- filename is multi.yml.

[jedis00]

Removed hyper-save-windowstate to make sure there wasn't a conflict... no change. Not seeing any window layout changes after loading my hyperinator config file.

[bet4it]

What about now? Hope I have fixed it.