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 😂 😂
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!