slarkkent / zellij-multitask

A mini-CI as a Zellij plugin

About

This Zellij plugin is a "mini-ci". It allows you to specify commands that will run in parallel, keeping track of completed commands and their exit status. Only progressing to the next step if all the commands in the previous step succeeded.

Did one command fail? No problem! Fix the issue, re-run it with ENTER and the pipeline will continue.

How does it work?

Multitask opens your default $EDITOR in a new tab pointed to a .multitask file. Any commands pasted to this file will run when you save it.

Multitask will divide tasks into "steps" separated by an empty (whitespace) line. Running all commands in each step in parallel and only moving on to the next step if all commands exited successfully. You can re-run failed commands by pressing ENTER while focused on their pane, and if they exit successfully, the next step will be run.

Example

echo "I will be run first"
echo "I will be run simultaneously to the line above" && sleep 2

echo "I will be run 2 seconds later"
echo "so will I!"

Installation

1. Download the multitask.wasm file from the release matching your installed Zellij version
2. Place it in $HOME/zellij-plugins
3. From within Zellij, run zellij action launch-or-focus-plugin file:$HOME/zellij-plugins/multitask.wasm --configuration "shell=$SHELL,cwd=`pwd`"

Development

Load the dev.kdl layout from inside zellij: zellij action new-tab -l dev.kdl or from outside Zellij with zellij -l dev.kdl