#aug aug is an extra terminal emulation layer to augment terminal functionality.

##project status october 2013: aug is currently beta software and is under active development. Added more I/O improvements and some new API calls.

##overview Similar to screen or tmux, aug facilitates transparent control of a terminal screen between terminal applications (such as bash, vim or emacs) and the terminal emulator (such as xterm). The difference is that while tmux and screen primarily provide terminal multiplexing funtionality, aug attempts only to provide hooks to a loaded aug plugin so that it may access the terminal screen and keyboard input.

For example, one could implement an aug plugin which provides terminal multiplexing functionality (though this would be somewhat pointless, as tmux and screen already do a great job at this), but aug does not provide this type of functionality by default.

The following example plugins can be found in the ./plugins directory of the source tree:

• hello: This is a minimal 'hello world' plugin.
• bold: This example demonstrates how a plugin can hook the process by which aug writes terminal characters to the terminal screen. It modifies the ncurses attributes of each character written to the screen to have the 'bold' attribute.
• rainbow: Similar to the bold example, this plugin changes the foreground color of each character written to the screen to a random color.
• reverse: Unlike 'bold' and 'rainbow' this plugin modifies more than just character attributes. It demonstrates that the entire screen can be controlled using the aug API by reversing the orientation of the terminal screen. This plugin is quite useful for April 1st shenanigans :D

These plugins are of course pointless, they are only meant as small examples. For a more complex example, please see the code at aug-db.

##how does it work? When aug is invoked from the terminal, it opens a new pseudo-terminal (pty) connected to a child process (usually a shell such as bash). Any keyboard input from the original terminal is passed along to the child's pty and any terminal output from the child is interpreted by libvterm and used to control the original terminal (using the ncurses library). Since aug acts as an intermediary for these I/O processes, it is able to provide hooks for plugins to modify/enhance/automate the keyboard input and/or the terminal output.

##documentation See the wiki for documentation on aug. If you don't want to view the wiki documentation in your browser, you can checkout a copy of the pages by running git clone git://github.com/cantora/aug.wiki.git or simply run make wiki in the root directory of the aug source tree.

In addition to the wiki, you can find detailed instructions on using the plugin API in the comments of ./include/aug.h.

##installation Please see the installation page in the wiki for detailed instructions. If you have all the required dependencies installed, simply running the make command in the root of the source tree should do the trick. The compilation process generates a single binary called aug, so to install you can simply copy the binary to some location that is in your PATH.

##tests To run various testing procedures:

• module tests: make tests
• screen test: make screen_api_test
  (valgrind must be installed for the following tests to run)
• memgrind module tests: make memgrind-tests
• memgrind screen test: make memgrind-screen_api_test
• helgrind screen test: make helgrind-screen_api_test
• drdgrind screen test: make drdgrind-screen_api_test
• all of the above: make alltests

##contribution Contributions are of course welcome and greatly appreciated. If you have trouble building the software and find that you have to do something special in order to compile correctly, please submit information about what you did so I can incorporate it into the makefile.

##license

• main source code: GPLv3. See LICENSE or the given URL for details.

• plugin headers: MIT. See the given URL or the source code of the files in the include directory. (These are licensed permissively so that plugin authors may choose to distribute the aug headers with the plugin source code without being forced into GPL licensing).