This patch offers the possibility to move through the terminal history, search for strings and use VIM-like motions, operations and quantifiers.

The default behavior listed below can be adapted:

Enter Vim Browse Mode:

• Alt+c

Operations in Vim Browse Mode:

• Enter Visual Mode: V / v
• Enter Yank Mode: Y

Motions in Vim Browse Mode:

• Basic motions: j, k, h, l, H, M, L, 0, $ like in VIM
• Word Move operators: w, W, e, E, b, B similar to VIM
• Search Operators: /, ?, n, N for forward / backward search
• Jump to the cursor position prior to entering Vim Browse Mode: G
• Repeat last command string: .
• in Visual Mode v: use t to toggle block selection mode

Custom Commands: Custom arrangements of the aforementioned commands can be defined in the configuration file:

The shortcut

struct NormalModeShortcuts normalModeShortcuts [] = { { 'C', "/Cheese\n" }, }

searches for the next occurrence of Cheese when the letter C is pressed. Usecases are for instance to jump between executed commands or to last error in a compile error output.

No sanity checks are performed wrt. the custom shortcuts; the program does not check if the command is circular. Hence the (useless) shortcut

struct NormalModeShortcuts normalModeShortcuts [] = { { 'C', "C" }, }

triggers an infinite loop as soon 'C' is typed in normal mode, because C is contained in the shortcut as control character.

Search Mode In search mode, the cursor jumps to the next occurrence of the search string, shifts the screen if necessary and highlights all occurrences of the search string that are currently visible on screen.

All motions -- including the search mode -- are currently circular, (hence if no search result is found, the search is continued at the top or bottom of the history, depending on the search direction).

• Currently based on the Scrollback patch, this dependency will be removed (see Bugs section).
• The patch is applied both to a non-patched version and to a patched version of st and can be tried out here (browse the available branches for finding the different versions of the patch). Contributions are welcome.

• The following two 'Bugs' will be resolved by removing the dependency on the Scrollback patch which is currently work in progress:
  • Normal mode overrides the output at the cursor position if the current command is still running and outputs text while not in alternate screen mode (not vim / htop etc)
  • in Alternate Screen mode, the current position is reset on repaint (e.g. htop).

• st-vimBrowse-20191107-2b8333f.diff

• Jochen Sprickerhof - st@jochen.sprickerhof.de
• M Farkas-Dyck - strake888@gmail.com
• Ivan Tham - pickfire@riseup.net (mouse scrolling)
• Ori Bernstein - ori@eigenstate.org (fix memory bug)
• Matthias Schoth - mschoth@gmail.com (auto altscreen scrolling)
• Laslo Hunhold - dev@frign.de (unscrambling, git port)
• Paride Legovini - pl@ninthfloor.org (don't require the Shift modifier when using the auto altscreen scrolling)
• Lorenzo Bracco - devtry@riseup.net (update base patch, use static variable for config)
• Kamil Kleban - funmaker95@gmail.com (fix altscreen detection)
• Avi Halachmi - avihpit@yahoo.com (mouse + altscreen rewrite after a2c479c)
• Jacob Prosser - geriatricjacob@cumallover.me

• Julius Hülsmann - <juliusHuelsmann [at] gmail [dot] com>

This patch allows the user to specify two distinct opacity values; one for the focused- and one for unfocused windows' background. This enables the user to spot the focused window at a glance.

The Alpha Highlight Focus Patch patch is based on the Alpha Patch, which is already applied in the patch file below. Most of the work has been performed by the original authors of the Alpha Patch.

• Note that you need an X composite manager (e.g. compton, xcompmgr) to make this patch effective.
• The alpha value affects the default background only.
• The color designated by 'defaultbg' should not be used elsewhere.
• Embedding might fail after applying this patch.

• In i3WM, the focus event is triggered twice for one specific window on a workspace (root); hence the alpha values are applied twice which appears as blinking.
• The patch is applied both to a non-patched version and to a patched version of st and can be tried out here.

• st-alphaFocusHighlight-20191107-2b8333f.diff

• Eon S. Jeon - esjeon@hyunmu.am
• pr - protodev@gmx.net (0.5 port)
• Laslo Hunhold - dev@frign.de (0.6, git ports)
• Ivan J. - parazyd@dyne.org (git port)
• Matthew Parnell - matt@parnmatt.co.uk (0.7 port)
• Johannes Mayrhofer - jm.spam@gmx.net (0.8.1 port)
• Àlex Ramírez aramirez@posteo.net (0.8.1 pre-multiplication fix).

• Julius Hülsmann - <juliusHuelsmann [at] gmail [dot] com>
• Kevin Velghe: Underline highlight fix

st is a simple terminal emulator for X which sucks less.

In order to build st you need the Xlib header files.

Edit config.mk to match your local setup (st is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to build and install st (if necessary as root):

make clean install

If you did not install st with make clean install, you must compile the st terminfo entry with the following command:

tic -sx st.info

See the man page for additional details.

Based on Aurélien APTEL bt source code.