What's new
So let's see what's new in this version 0.15 of termscp.
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Fuzzy Search
The find command was a little bit rudimental; it had been introduced in one of the first versions of termscp and basically it has remained the same for a very long time. Finally, things have come to change.
Thanks to an issue reported by Ktoks I've finally managed to introduce 🪄 Fuzzy search 🪄 to termscp.
The find operation can be cancelled
Finally you're able to cancel the find operation if it takes too long with <CTRL+C>.
Multi Pod support
In the last version of termscp, I've introduced the Kube protocol to explore the file system of a container inside a pod. Some of you have asked for an explorer to switch between the pods and containers inside the same namespace and treat them a single file system. Well, I've decided to satisfy your request, indeed termscp 0.15 finally supports multiple pods, seen as children of / and containers as children of the pod /pod-name/container-name/path/to/file.
What's next - termscp 0.16
I'm also announcing what's have been planned for termscp 0.16. Actually JUST ONE FEATURE.
Multi host in termscp - this is big
What is multi-host
So currently termscp can only work with a remote in the following way
|-----------| |--------|| | --------> | || Localhost | | Remote || | <-------- | ||-----------| |--------|
But, what if we could link two remotes?
|----------| |----------|| | --------> | || Remote A | | Remote B || | <-------- | ||----------| |----------|
How it would work
Clearly, it is impossible to directly link two remotes, because they don't run termscp, but we could make termscp in two modes. One is as-is now with Localhost and Remotefs, and the other one would be like this
|----------|| || Remote A || ||----------|^ || || || v|-------------| |----------|| | --------> | || Host Bridge | | Remote B || | <-------- | ||-------------| |----------|
So this would require a new trait like HostBridge to provide the same methods as the current Host and then we would implement a RemoteHostBridge which interacts with remotefs to the RemoteA which is mapped by the Host bridge.
Changes to UI
The explorer would remain exactly as-is, while the auth page would be split into two forms, one for panel A and one for panel B. Panel A among all the other protocols, must have as the first option Localhost to work as-is.
Critical aspects
There are a few open points for the UI:
- How do bookmarks behave when I load a bookmark? Should it be loaded in the last panel or in the first panel which is empty?
- What keybindings do we use to switch between the two views?
When 0.16
This release will be released probably by the end of 2024.
I hope you enjoy using termscp, and if you encounter any issue, don't hesitate to report an issue on github.