protoc-gen-mdbook VS manter

Ironing out last wrinkles in my protoc-gen-mdbook plugin.

Wiring up prost(-types) with Askama in protoc-gen-mdbook to generate more sensible gRPC service documentation than what protoc-gen-doc offers. Despite the name of the protoc plugin the output can of course be integrated in any Markdown-based documentation system.

Link to the project: https://github.com/iondodon/manter

Link to project: https://github.com/iondodon/manter

How to add autocomplete suggestions support for your needed CLI: https://github.com/iondodon/manter/wiki

Link to project:

https://github.com/iondodon/manter

This project aims to create a terminal with functionalities that improve the experience of using terminals. Examples of useful functionalities would be autocomplete suggestion, showing the current branch of a project, prepared scripts that can be reused, and others. You can come up with your ideas. The project uses technologies such as Svelte on the front-end, which offers flexibility regarding the implementation of the interface. On the back-end side, the most important part is the PTY. All the back end is implemented in Rust. The basic framework of the project is Tauri.

At the moment the terminal has suggestions only for some commands (cd, ls). To support more commands it is needed to add them in the Manter's "library" located at src/cli/library/library.ts. It is possible to have custom script based suggestions. For example if we write in the terminal “git checkout” and after we press Space, a dropdown will appear with all available branches.

A good analogy to understand the purpose of this project is the following - traditional terminals are like simple code editors while this terminal is like an IDE.

Anyone is welcome to contribute to this project with and ideas. Imagine the terminal you would like to use. Feel free to open any issue with suggestions and bugs.

Terminal built with Tauri (Rust+Svelte).

I got this idea of creating a terminal that is more user friendly having autocomplete suggestions. I couldn’t create a suggestions engine that would work for all commands. But I defined a structure (a state machine in src/cli/library/library.ts) that can be used to determine the next suggestions. The good part with this approach is that it is possible to have custom script based suggestions. For example if we write in the terminal “git checkout” and after we press Space, a dropdown will appear with all available branches. The bad part is that it will take some time to add more supported commands in this “library”.

Another feature is that in the bottom bar of the terminal we can have custom script based information. In .manter.json we can define a script that will generate this information. The script will be executed each time the prompt appears.

On the front-end are used web technologies which offer a flexibility to add any feature and style that we want.

Repository: https://github.com/iondodon/manter

I'm working on my new open-source project Manter (cross-platform terminal). Learning Rust by building software.