Custom triggers

[gagata]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Requested on Discord by zouhir

Describe the solution you'd like?

what are custom triggers?
allow users to define some regular expression and when matched in a command output, trigger an action. Example:
- if matched '^ERROR.*' -> highlight red.
- if matched ^https?:// -> make clickable link

Additional context

iTerm2 triggers & supported actions

• https://iterm2.com/documentation-triggers.html

[mds1]

+1 on this. The one big thing I miss from iTerm2 is their trigger support, namely:

• Highlighting text various colors when it matches some regex
• Having text link to a URL if it matches some regex, where the URL includes the matched string

[mds1]

Hey, just wanted to bump this and see if it’s on the roadmap at all or if there’s any blockers to implementing. I still miss this feature a lot 😅

[mrpaulphan]

+1 on this. I use this feature with iTerm all the time with my work. This is the only thing holding me back from fully switching to warp

[elviskahoro]

Combining triggers with collapsable blocks +/ compact mode

only show one line of output, for instance when running yarn add react, for example it would be useful when upgrading from yarn outdated output

would be great if the output is smart ;) and you can activate it with something like shift+enter

The way I imagine it is that all output is squashed into one line with an ability to expand (or scroll).
It really depends on your current workflow in the terminal. Some commands, like code generation or package installation give a whole bunch of lines of output while the only thing I need to know is "success" or "failure". It's nice to have the blocks as a history without having to scroll a whole bunch.

[elviskahoro]

[elviskahoro]

From @rkabrick via discord:
https://discord.com/channels/851854972600451112/906269689116770304/909451712190894130

4.) Trigger commands based on Warp environment... Essentially IFTT but in the terminal... If certain events occur then background events get triggered. This could be something like:

• If $CWD == Project-1: fd "TODO" ./ to print out TODO comments found inside repo
• If error found in a cell w/ a corresponding filename: set $ERROR to that file so that vim $ERROR is possible
• If working on project (extension of my previous idea): Trigger VPN connection if applicable.

The possibilities are really endless with this and I think it could be a really cool feature for Warp to have

[elviskahoro]

From tetromino via discord: https://discord.com/channels/851854972600451112/852249738002956311/933808140301008988

Apologies if this has already been requested, one of the requirements we have for engineers is to change the terminal colouring when connecting to a remote SSH connection, production for example. We can do this in iTerm using profile switching triggerd from a regex on the host.

Do you foresee, adding of profiles and a way to dynamically swap between them?

[michbsd]

A huge +1 from me on this one - this is the only reason I am still keeping iterm2 around. I have written a whole bunch of triggers that will change colors of matched strings in iterm - so I can easily distinguish important stuff in huge log files.

If Warp would add this, I would be able to migrate completely 🙏🏻

[hugows]

+1, I do the same with the colors. I also Post Notification for certain conditions on long-running commands. Lets me switch to the browser until something happens..

[elviskahoro]

Someone shared this cool feature from Wezterm:

a quickselect mode that allow quick copying of items by pressing character keys, similar to wezterm https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/quickselect.html

[Madd0g]

regex triggers that run commands are a big part of my workflow, I would love to try warp if it had that feature.

Most of what I do in the terminal is compilation commands (watch/test/compile) and I have lots of triggers that run custom code based on matched regex.

I feel like the block basedt nature of warp would make my workflow even more powerful, since in iterm it can only match one line at a time.

[arpolek]

+1, iTerm triggers are essential for me, and that's the only reason I'm staying with iTerm for now.

[mrpaulphan]

+1, the iTerm is essential for my everyday job. I can't fully switch without it.

[Markandayan1518]

any update on it feature "custom triggers"

[Donaldv]

I would also like to see this feature port over is the one thing holding me back

[iakasa]

For me, I use triggers to automatically launch certain websites when I am using ssh.

For example, if I wrote a script that outputted OPEN_IN_HOST::https://github.com, it would open the browser on my host system

[hugows]

Thats a great idea Ian...

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[GuitaristForEver]

that would be very cool to implement, I've been using this in iTerm2 and it's been really helpful to easily find errors :)