multiview-rs

Run many commands and watch all outputs in a single terminal

Installation

If rust is not already installed, install rust.

Then run:

cargo install --git https://gitea.tforgione.fr/tforgione/multiview

Usage

Split your terminal in two rows, the first containing three columns, and the second containing one column:

multiview cmd1 :: cmd2 :: cmd3 // cmd4 :: cmd5

Split your terminal in two columns, the first containing three rows, and the second containing one row:

multiview cmd1 // cmd2 // cmd3 :: cmd4 // cmd5

Colors

Most well written programs will disable colors when running from multiview, in order to force them to use colors, you can use the unbuffer command from the expect package.

multiview unbuffer cmd1 :: unbuffer cmd2

Shortcuts

• k: kills the current tile
• K: kills all tiles
• r: restarts the current tile
• R: restarts all tiles
• l: draw a line on the current tile
• L: draw a line on all tiles
• q: quits

Limitations

Don't resize your terminal... just don't 😢

History

This is my attempt to rewrite arjunmehta's multiview in rust.

Their version has many features that I don't use, but is missing a few things that I need:

• line wrapping: when a line is bigger than the terminal size, the end is just not displayed
• scroll: if your output has more lines than your terminal height, there is no way (to my knowledge) to scroll up