This is awesome! I was thinking it would be neat to have something like abduco but on a more reliable foundation, like libghostty-vt.
For my agent management scripts I use zellij since it is more ergonomic than tmux. Abduco sounded good in principle, but implementation is too limited. However, zellij is quite huge in the order of tens of thousands LOC and I am using only small part of it. It looks like zmx might implement just the right amount of features for this use case, I am going to try it. It is always nice to achieve same functionality with leaner tools.
Do you also think about dvtm part alternative? I wonder if once libghostty proper gets finished it would open possibility to level up textual multiplexing and unlock some cool features with graphical UIs.
I have thought about writing a separate tool that resembles dvtm but I’m not exactly sure how I would build it.
I don’t want to maintain a monster project like terminal multiplexing. Zmx is basically a single file with 1500 LoC and is “production grade” with just a few quirks I haven’t figure out yet.
I would want something of similar scope.
With zmx I created two commands you might be interested in: zmx run and zmx history. Run lets your execute commands inside the PTY and history lets you read from the session history.
For my agent management scripts I use zellij since it is more ergonomic than tmux. Abduco sounded good in principle, but implementation is too limited. However, zellij is quite huge in the order of tens of thousands LOC and I am using only small part of it. It looks like zmx might implement just the right amount of features for this use case, I am going to try it. It is always nice to achieve same functionality with leaner tools.
Do you also think about dvtm part alternative? I wonder if once libghostty proper gets finished it would open possibility to level up textual multiplexing and unlock some cool features with graphical UIs.