Show a notification when executing shell commands

[Taitava]

A suggestion from @pulinagrawal in #259:

As a compromise can we have something like a notification when a command starts?

My response:

I think some kind of ability to monitor executed shell command processes could be planned. A notification balloon could be one approach, yes. Thank you for the idea! 🙂 It could later be developed further to make it more advanced.

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I've now implemented this and here's how it looks like:

Here it shows that the shell command with alias A long running shell command is being executed now. If a shell command does not have an alias text defined, then the actual command is shown in the notification.

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A new notification setting is created in the Output tab in the plugin's main settings. The setting affects all shell commands, there is no shell command specific setting for this.

• Do not show: This is selected by default.
• Show for n seconds: Shows the notification every time. The duration is the same as defined in Notification message duration.
• Show until the process is finished: Shows the notification every time, and keeps it visible for as long as the shell command runs. This is handy if you have long running shell commands without any visible output, and you want to keep an eye out on if they are still running or not. If you execute quickly running shell commands, then the notification will just show up and disappear immediately.
• Show only if executing takes long: Same as Show until the process is finished, but waits two seconds after starting the execution. If the shell command is still running after two seconds, the notification is then displayed.

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@pulinagrawal, what do you think about the options? 🙂

[pulinagrawal]

@Taitava That looks just perfect. Thanks.

[Taitava]

Released now

@pulinagrawal can you test this and let me know if there's anything to improve, please? 🙂

[pulinagrawal]

It works great. I like the option to show the notification until process is finished. I am gonna be using that option. @Taitava Thanks for implementing it.

[Taitava]

Thank you for your feedback! ❤️

[snail123815]

Hi @Taitava,

Thanks for the new function, I like it. As I am not testing it yet, I got a question just by reading the screen shots.

Will the notification (Show until the process is finished) block all operation? I would like to have that ability if possible.

The reason is that I am implementing a command which contains git add . && git commit -m "dum" && git push etc. Although changing the file during this process is not a problem for execution, but it is still good that the input can be completely blocked while running this command.

I am sure for some other command which include variables like {{caret_position}}, the file change during execution might cause severe problems. Thus blocking all operations might be a good feature.

I am happy to help you test this.

Best~

[Taitava]

I just noticed the above function is implemented as a 'global' settings. Might be good to have it per command.

Hi @snail123815 . It's been a long time, but I'm finally beginning to implement the possibility to specify the execution notification setting on a per shell command basis. The process can be tracked in issue #388.

[Taitava]

@snail123815 if you want, you can try the setting in 0.22.0-beta.1. It's been open for a week now, I just didn't remember to post about it in this discussion.

[snail123815]

Hi Taitava,
Sorry for the late reply. I just had some time to test the beta.

The settings are working fine. I tried two commands with different notification settings.

Thanks for the effort, you made the plugin better!

[Taitava]

Thank you for the feedback! ❤️

[Taitava]

Released

This per shell command setting is now finally released in 0.22.0.