doc: tty env progs about youtube-tui HOT 14 CLOSED

in short sounds good go on

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It's an optional thing users can set. Usually you'd use it with a default value eg ${TERMINAL:-xterm} in bash.

Check out how i3-sensible-terminal does it: https://github.com/i3/i3/blob/next/i3-sensible-terminal

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thx, so the idea is to have alternative config files ready for download, it that what ur trying to say?

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Or just a section in the docs, to start. I was wanting to check with you before going forward, to see if you had any particular preferences for which tools. I spent some time evaluating Zellij last night, and concluded that it's a strict upgrade over tmux, so I was thinking to document config to open audio streams in an existing zellij session (just zellij run -- cmd). Also, any obstacles to just calling mpv etc directly, and waiting for it to exit? That honestly seems like a good default, since everyone has their own term emulator preference (kitty, wezterm, foot, konsole, etc). https://man.archlinux.org/man/i3-sensible-terminal.1.en is nice although unfortunately it's not installed by default anywhere.

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Also, I'm a Nix user, and at some point I'll probably make a home-manager module with some smart defaults for ppl installing via nix.

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seems cool, but I don't really use those tools (tmux, or zellij).

currently I'm in an exam situation, and I have no commits on hold not committed, so there shouldn't be a possibility of merge conflicts. If that sounds good you can start editing /docs anytime if you want to, or tell me if I misunderstood anything.

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No pressure, but how's the progress?

Also, just want to let you know that the repo - including the docs has been modified just now, so if you are still doing it don't forget to git pull or something.

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Next time I get around to messing with youtube-tui, I'll have a look at the existing docs/example configs and see if there's any low-hanging fruit. No timeline for that though cuz it's low priority for me.

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dw it has already been put onto nixos repos see installation

i'll close the issue for now as it doesn't seem necessary anymore

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already been put onto nixos repos

Yes, it's already in nixpkgs like everything. I meant adding a config module to nix home-manager.

i'll close the issue for now as it doesn't seem necessary anymore

Adding example config that doesn't assume a specific terminal emulator is installed still seems very worthwhile, to avoid the need for customization in most cases (maybe one has been added since I filed tho, haven't checked)

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A config repo seems to be a good idea, config profiles would also be a good idea. But that seems like a lot of work, so maybe a post 1.0, non default feature while I work on missing core features such as subscriptions.

I also got another idea of making a TUI client template extensible by wasm, just like how weechat did it and move youtube-tui to it, but there are currently no plans and I have no idea how to do that.

I originally thought that getting the default term is really complicated, $TERM thinks I'm using xterm-256color, I'll figure out a way to do that without introducing new dependencies as compiling is already so painfully slow.

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config repo ... config profiles

yeah, I was just wanting to triage with a basic config example or default that would work for most users. I'm happy to take a look in a week or two.

$TERM thinks I'm using xterm-256color

that one is for looking up the termcap file, yucky POSIX internals.

A user can set $TERMINAL to the command for their preferred terminal emulator, so using that with a reasonable default could be good.

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$TERMINAL does not exist for me, it is stored somewhere in KDE settings idk

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