Alternative to Window-content.

[Imani S]

Hi, 

I am trying to make a plugin in which I basically want to grab all the text content from a pane, do some stuff and repopulate it back to the pane. I want it to run as a callback everytime the pane-content changes. I was going through the man page and it seems there was a option for that before which was monitor-content, but that have been discontinued now. 

I want to know if there is any alternative monitor/hooks that I can use?

Thanks.

[Nicholas Marriott]

IIRC monitor-content was to monitor for particular text.

You could probably use monitor-activity. Or you may be better using control mode.

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[Imani S]

Thanks. monitor-activity would work as per my testing. However I am in another pinch now. Is there a way to re render the whole text content from another shell/process? I just want to redraw the pane with some modifications, without it affecting the interactivity of that pane. Is that possible?

[Nicholas Marriott]

No, there is no way to do this.

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[Imani S]

Hmm. How much of the core would need to be changed to support this? Maybe I can try to fork and try to add this in. 

Can I get some tmux dev docs. The file structure is pretty much flat. A highlevel overview would be really nice. The main use case I want to have for this is basically meta syntax highlighting, something akin to what mobaxterm on windows provide. Going through log files/config files on plain vi on remote machines is hard on the eyes. Want to be able to add color based on simple regex. 

Making it part of tmux or a using a tmux plugin for this instead of relying on a terminal emulator providing it would make it emulator agnostic for the most part. But honestly I just want to add it in because it is going to be useful to me. 

Thanks.

[Nicholas Marriott]

Someone wrote a patch for this years ago but never tried to submit it, someone else asked about it in this issue:

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/2797

https://gist.github.com/pxsta/5f86092eec0d611c2770#file-tmux-highlight-text-patch

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