Vim Style Command Interface

Currently we use keybinding to perform actions (on flows etc.) but some of them have too much hierarchy.

Having vim-like commands for all actions that we can perform would be amazing.

Some examples: :filter-view <filter>, :delete-matching <filter>, :export python.

Of course the commands (& their arguments) will have autocompletion. 😜

I think this will improve our keybinding system too & make them configurable.

ranger is file-manager written in python that has this vim style shell, so we could look at how they handle things etc.

[dufferzafar]

I think having 1 letter commands (verbs) isn’t too different from having hotkeys (except in a few cases) because it still relies on being able to remember them. (Was it s or S ?)

I’ll be in favor of having long descriptive names for commands because once we have an autocompletion system, you can just start typing part of a command (sublime style fuzzy is what I have in mind) and won’t have to type much.

You could still have aliases for these commands - specified in the mitm config file perhaps (alias m mark-matching line?)

@Kriechi Your demo looks amazing! Is there a tree that I can clone and play around with?

[cortesi]

Here’s @resam’s demo of a more verbose language:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/091j4l8pnitdykp/mitmproxy-commands.mov?dl=0