Use Hyper CLI to open multiple windows and tabs with configuration

[zanedev]

It could be nice to launch HyperTerm with a few tabs and run a few scripts in each one automatically. Like a project configuration. Is that possible now?

[timneutkens]

It's not build into hyperterm at the moment. You could write a plugin for it though 👍 You mean kind of like iTerm2's profiles right?

[zanedev]

Maybe even simpler, rather than full fledged profiles at first. Like the ability to launch a command to a new tab in the current window. I imagine it would be reused as a command line launcher in general but maybe if it's called from hyperterm it launches a new tab, if it's called outside hyperterm it launches hyperterm with that command. The hyperterm app doesn't seem to accept command line arguments currently as far as I can tell...

Sure it would be fun! I've never worked with electron but would like to get into it. Any ideas to point in the right direction would help.

[timneutkens]

Hmm that would be a cool idea.. like a echo 'example' | hyperterm which opens a new tab and executes the command passed in. Same goes for hyperterm "echo 'example'" Maybe if you're a little crazy you could hook into that and add the hyperhyper command which does the same with this soundbit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7aKqJsuPDg :joy: :joy: echo 'example' | hyperhyper

[zanedev]

I imagine it would need to be like textmate or webstorm where we'd bundle a separate command line tools binary/script that can be optionally installed in the path. Or maybe that's overkill it could be simpler to just pass params to the app living in Applications.

[austin-guevara]

Hey, guys – any update to this in Hyper? I was hoping for something even as simple as the ability to open Hyper.app from the command line. Not necessary pass a command into it.

Is that possible? I know you can just run: open "/Applications/Hyper.app"

But that launches a new instance every time. Instead, is there a way to have it launch and open a new instance if it's not already running (and only launch a new window if it is already running)?

[thrkmmr]

At work we use scripts to open new tabs in Konsole that SSH into the various servers we deploy and test on (about a 100 different servers). The background colors (actually the profiles) are different for different environment types. For example:

konsole --new-tab --profile Test -e ssh someserver.ourdomain.com

If this was possible in Hyper I would switch.

[ilkka]

I noticed that one can run /Application/Hyper.app/Contents/MacOS/Hyper /path/to/directory to open a new instance of the app, with the given path as the working directory, but that's as far as it goes. Also it shows up in alt-tab etc. as a separate app which is not very handy.

[rmwaite]

The trouble with passing a directory or command to the executable on the command line is that new windows created from that session seem to "inherit" those properties. So for example, if you open a window using /Application/Hyper.app/Contents/MacOS/Hyper /path/to/directory and then create a new window, it will also open in that directory. The Windows alt-tab and macOS dock will see this instance as a different application if Hyper was already running with no (or different) arguments. I'm unfamiliar with Electron or the Hyper code to see if this is something that can be fixed - such that different instances launched with different command line arguments are grouped together as the same application. I also think it is worth considering a separate command line utility with the ability to hook into the running app the create new windows and run commands, etc - but again, I'm not familiar enough with the technologies here to know if this is naive.

[borela]

Having a .hyperproj file to launch pre configured tabs would be extremely useful, any progress on this?

[ppot]

This is in my long task list to enable profile accessibility!

[dsturm]

There is a typo in @ilkka and @richardwaite comments: it is /Applications/Hyper.app/Contents/MacOS/Hyper /path/to/directory. That is quite handy if you want to open hyper over GitKraken.

[albinekb]

@borela that seems perfect for a plugin!

[tkodev]

Would enable many use cases: such as allowing sftp programs to launch hyper for SSH, a support for a myriad of "cd_to" like tools (that also work from any application), etc.

I'm a little surprised that hyper doesn't support any command line arguments - since it's application can be categorized as command line tool (to some extent) !

Alternatively I could just fork and make my own hyper version, but I would love official update support :(

[chabou]

Indeed you could just fork and make your own hyper version... ...and make a PR to have this in an official update 😄

[Royedc4]

@richardwaite @dsturm @ilkka Thanks /Applications/Hyper.app/Contents/MacOS/Hyper /path/to/directory Works as expected.

[jacquescrocker]

New tab support would be great, along with kicking off a command to start. I have this scripted out (via applescript) in Terminal.app. But its ugly. I'd want to run a script called "dev/start" in my project that looks something like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

hyper --tab --title "Server" --script "cd $HOME/myProject/server && bundle exec rails s"
hyper --tab --title "Console" --script "cd $HOME/myProject/server && bundle exec rails c"
hyper --tab --title "Specs" --script "cd $HOME/myProject/server && bundle exec guard"
hyper --tab --title "Frontend" --script "cd $HOME/myProject/frontend && bundle exec middleman start"

That would open up 4 tabs automatically, name them, and then kick off a script for each

I'm totally open to alternative ways of doing it also. But the end result should be 4 named tabs with 4 different processes.

Thanks!

[timothyis]

Woops, I didn't totally understand the issue 🙈

I'll change the title to be more accurate to the new hyper CLI 👌

[elijahgagne]

I feel compelled to write in to describe my use case for this functionality. I currently have PowerShell functions that open new tabs in ConEmu and establish new ssh.exe, mysql, psql (Postgres), sqlcmd (SQL Server), sqlplus (Oracle), and other connections. In my PowerShell profile, I also have a function that reads in all the servers and databases from a CMDB at startup and creates aliases for them. That allows me to start typing the name of a system, tab complete it, press enter, and get a new tab with an SSH, database, or other connection, etc.

If the hyper cli gets a function that lets me create tabs from the command line and I can use arbitrary shells with hyper, then I think a lot of SysAdmin/DBA types would be interested in hyper.

[volumetric]

New tab support would be great, along with kicking off a command to start. I have this scripted out (via applescript) in Terminal.app. But its ugly. I'd want to run a script called "dev/start" in my project that looks something like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

hyper --tab --title "Server" --script "cd $HOME/myProject/server && bundle exec rails s"
hyper --tab --title "Console" --script "cd $HOME/myProject/server && bundle exec rails c"
hyper --tab --title "Specs" --script "cd $HOME/myProject/server && bundle exec guard"
hyper --tab --title "Frontend" --script "cd $HOME/myProject/frontend && bundle exec middleman start"

That would open up 4 tabs automatically, name them, and then kick off a script for each

I'm totally open to alternative ways of doing it also. But the end result should be 4 named tabs with 4 different processes.

Thanks!

This is totally what I am looking for. Guake Terminal has something very similar to this and I have a terminal starter script that i run after system start. This is very helpful and preps your terminal session for your work.

[dewetblomerus]

Working on micro-services I sometimes have 4 different servers to start before testing my code. Just telling them all to start in different tabs would be amazing!

[zerdos]

@dewetblomerus, take a look on this: https://github.com/zerdos/modern-web-app-skeleton/blob/master/.hyperlayout

[pcnate]

New tab support would be great, along with kicking off a command to start. I have this scripted out (via applescript) in Terminal.app. But its ugly. I'd want to run a script called "dev/start" in my project that looks something like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

hyper --tab --title "Server" --script "cd $HOME/myProject/server && bundle exec rails s"
hyper --tab --title "Console" --script "cd $HOME/myProject/server && bundle exec rails c"
hyper --tab --title "Specs" --script "cd $HOME/myProject/server && bundle exec guard"
hyper --tab --title "Frontend" --script "cd $HOME/myProject/frontend && bundle exec middleman start"

That would open up 4 tabs automatically, name them, and then kick off a script for each

I'm totally open to alternative ways of doing it also. But the end result should be 4 named tabs with 4 different processes.

Thanks!

I would expect that with electron being slow to startup, there would be a need for some launcher app to track these and wait until the GUI app fully executes

[lou-bi]

I would like to try writing this plugin. Does the api provide the necessary to hook such option on start, or is a fork required ?

[Circuit8]

I'd definitely love to see this feature come to life :+1:, I really love Hyper and this would bring it to perfection for me

[taylorjdawson]

Curious about the answer to @BonLouis's comment, as well as, justification/reasoning on why this should be a plugin instead of a built in feature? Are enough of the hyper internals exposed for this to be a plugin? Thanks!

[chabou]

I think that Hyperlayout plugin does exactly what you want :)

[taylorjdawson]

Hmm interesting seems to do what everyone is asking for? What's missing from the Hyperlayout plugin that doesn't resolve this issue?

[pcnate]

Interesting. I'll have to try that out later on

[elijahgagne]

Some things I'd like that might not be included in the Hyperlayout plugin are:

1. Ability to create a layout that uses different shells (e.g. PowerShell, Bash, cmd.exe)
2. Ability to create a layout by passing parameters (without creating/editing a file)

To elaborate on (2), for example, I'd create a Bash or PowerShell function that takes a parameter for the server name. When the function is called, it creates a new tab, runs ssh, and passes in all the relevant paraments to connect to a server. It seems that hyperlayout could do this, but would require creating files. I wouldn't want to do this, especially because the files might contain credentials.

I only skimmed Hyperlayout so I could have easily missed that it covers 1 and/or 2.

[chabou]

1 I think this feature can be added to Hyperlayout 2 We need to add ability to Hyper to pass CLI args to plugins.

I really don't think it should be a core feature but Hyper should definitely make this feature possible with plugins.