Command to install hyperterm plugins

[mikeal]

It's kind of clunky to install plugins, it would be great if there were just a hypterm command line to do that kinda stuff.

hyperterm install hypertheme

[mxstbr]

hpm by @matheuss is trying to solve that, not sure if that should be in core? https://github.com/matheuss/hpm

[matheuss]

I think it would be really cool if hpm came along with HyperTerm 😊 Atom, for instance, ships apm with the app.

[mxstbr]

@matheuss submitted a PR for that (#282), let's see what @rauchg has to say about that!

[rauchg]

I'm interested, but I'd like to understand the clunkiness more. Right now you edit a file, you save it, it hot-reloads.

[matheuss]

Well, is faster and easier to install a package with a little command 😅 When I first thought of writing hpm, I thought "HyperTerm needs something like apm"

[booc0mtaco]

Although it can be assumed that anyone using hyperterm probably understands how to edit the file, something like hpm would:

• provide an external mechanism to check for package validity (or search a la brew search)
• make scripting a bit easier for dotfile repositories
• drastically reduce the likelihood of typos corrupting the config file entirely during (un-/re-)install

Just a few additional thoughts

[matheuss]

Just an update: now we have more commands 😊

❯ hpm --help
[...]
    s, search <query>      Search for plugins on npm
    ls-remote              List plugins available on npm
    d, docs <plugin>       Open the npm page of the <plguin>

[tunnckoCore]

In anyway, nowhere in the docs or site is said how to install it. I just see ~/.hyper_plugins folder, but how packages goes there? Should i just npm install the plugins globally or what?

[matheuss]

You can add nom package names to the plugins array on .hyper.js 👌

[chabou]

It is planned to ship hpm with Hyper

[Klariff]

After i install a plugin, what i must do to show up what actually the plugin does?

[chabou]

v2 is shipped with hyper CLI tool that permits to install/uninstall plugins.

[jwulf]

Typing hyper in hyper just opens another terminal for me... I'm on Hyper 2.0 on Ubuntu 18.04.

[subhead]

@jwulf same here. When i type hyper --help another hyper windows pops up but the help text gets printed in the previous window.