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Commands that render with ncurses (htop, vim, etc..), or require user input (ssh, less, etc..), are virtually un-usable.

Add a button/option/something to restart a running/completed command in term.js.

We need two tickets to the gunshow.

Implement global hotkey listener with 'react-hotkeys'. I need C-u!

Currently only shell commands and directories are autocompletable. Zsh supports contextual parameter and flag completion, which is super useful. While I would like this feature, I think it is unreasonable to expect users to supply a completion function with their program for every shell in the universe. Since Bash and Zsh completion functions are fairly ubiquitous I propose writing the contextual completion feature, followed by a (Zsh &|| Bash)-> Alphaterm completion function parser. Sounds fun.

For example, find / returns a lot of data. The current setup re-renders the commandNode component every time a piece of data is returned, which gets very slow very quickly.

TODO:
Prevent re-rendering after a timeout if a command has not returned, then re-render once the command returns.

If you input a path.. say /home/someone/stuff/things, then backspace back up to /home/someone/st , the autocompleter still contains suggestions for the stuff directory instead of the someone directory because it loads new completions when it matches a filepath. Ie. it loads new completions on /home, /home/someone, /home/someone/stuff, etc. and since backspacing over ~/stuff/someone to ~/stu hits ~/stuff , those are the completions it loads.

To fix this I can imagine two solutions:

First, reload completions on every keystroke, which would likely be a reasonable solution in both implementation and computational complexity.

If this turns out to be too complex, then the other solution I can imagine is to cache the depth of the path on every keystroke, and reload the completions when that depth changes.

TODO:
[X] Autocomplete shell functions
[X] Autocomplete directories
[X] Contextual directory completion