Amenbo 22.3.0 — the terminal screen is rebuilt

The terminal screen is rebuilt. The changes from 22.1.0 and 22.2.0 also landed by this version.

Projects stand on tabs down the edge

Every open project takes a vertical tab at the left edge of the window, and pressing one switches to that project’s panes.

The folder tree moved into the left column

The left column draws the contents of every folder a project is bound to — all of them, not just whichever sorted first. The first level is drawn from the start, so there is less pressing before you can follow anything.

For a folder under git:

• changed files are marked
• a folded folder says what changed underneath it
• files the repository ignores are drawn faintly, and are left out of the watch

Several rows can be picked out at once. Creating, renaming, moving and copying all happen in this tree.

Files are read in a column of their own

Memo and files has two widths. The narrow one stands beside the panes; the wide one lies over them and takes nothing from them. Opening a file asks for the wide width, and the next press outside the column — a pane, the folder tree — puts it back narrow.

• Files opened stay as tabs, in the order opened, so following a reference does not cost the file it was followed from. Closing one stands on the tab beside it.
• The file is read in the encoding it is actually in, and the note says which one that was; you can name a different one instead.
• What you type can be saved back into the file it was read from.
• If the file is written to from somewhere else while it is open, you are told.

Panes split across and down

A page holds one, two, four, six or eight panes; with two, they sit side by side or one above the other. The columns beside the panes can be closed, opened and dragged, and the width is kept for the project it was dragged in.

Files are handed to a pane by dropping them

Dragging a row from the tree onto a pane puts that path into the pane, and with several rows picked out, all of them go. Files on the machine’s clipboard paste the same way.

Getting it

Open the installer for your OS from the latest release. No admin rights are needed.

• macOS — .pkg, one for Apple silicon and one for Intel (GUI and CLI come together)
• Windows — setup .exe (GUI and CLI come together)
• Linux — the GUI is an AppImage; the amenbo command comes from the CLI installer

To update: on the GUI, the “a newer version is available” banner applies it in place. If you installed only the CLI, amenbo update --apply swaps it.

The stored data format is unchanged, so data from an earlier version opens as it is.

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