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Contour: Modern and Fast Terminal Emulator
> Editing multiline inputs is awful.
Outside of "line at a time" i/o (a rarely used mode where an entire line is edited locally and then sent to the host), most of what users see is as interactive is controlled by the program you are interacting with. The terminal just takes commands from the host and does what it is told. BTW, line at a time mode isn't used that much. The only thing I use that uses line at a time mode is telenet in LINEMODE.
> Navigating history is so-so
Yes, that is because the program you are likely interacting with where history is relevant implements it's own repl or command line (i.e. bash, zsh, python, etc...) and it is responsible for it's own history and may implement it completely differently than say, bash or zsh.
> Why are terminals always stuck in the 70s? Can I get a modern terminal?
We do have a modern terminal: the web browser... and it's pretty nice.
There have been a ton of tries at more modern terminals, but ultimately, they end up really being limited by the software running in the terminal session. In the 90s we had a ton of commercial terminal emulators that would allow you to create full guis, complete with dialogs and forms. In the 00's there were a few tries at terminals that would allow html output and embedding of html forms for input (can't remember the names of them). I suppose there's also the whole X11 thing... which is so good enough that it's really hard to kill.
Let's get back to character mode:
A lot of interactive terminal software is built using different libraries - so sometimes you get a terminal gui based on ncurses, terminal.gui, or something else... here's a list: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis#libraries. Most of these libraries try to use most of the features in your terminal emulator, but often, just use stuff that is in everything.
For command line programs (i.e. just type a command), a lot of the experience is dictated by the parser used by the tool and whatever the underlying operating system has for passing arguments. Some shells and terminal emulators (like iTerm2 on mac) try to smooth this out, but again, there's a lot of variety in command line parsers.
Probably the biggest modern improvement in the shell world was gettext and various command-line completion libraries which allows command parameter completion if the developer supports it or uses a parser that supports completion. But none of this is the terminal itself doing the work.
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What can you do in a terminal?
Check out this list of great TUI projects if you really want to see what terminal only is capable of.
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I wrote a TUI snake game in BASH v5.1+
This looks really cool! Would you mind PRing it to my awesome TUIs list? https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
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Awesome CLI & TUI Applications Directory site
See also: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
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Are there any TUI apps you recommend outside of ncdu / nnn / htop / vim / bat / fd / tig / duf?
Here's a good list
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What's the most beautifully designed TUI-app you've used?
Have a browse at the awesome-tui list and in the reddit search bar: this question is asked quite often and there are already plenty of answers :)
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[Possibly OT] Is there a list of command-line versions of any Unix/Linux GUI applications?
https://github.com/toolleeo/cli-apps and https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis? Though it doesn't mention a specific GUI apps (eg, Lynx is under either Web Browser or Web on those lists), and it's just lists, no actual comparison or review etc. I usually found AlternativeTo to be somewhat decent start to see what features and alternatives I can expect across platform.
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Hacker News top posts: Mar 17, 2022
TUIs\ (155 comments)
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TUIs
Github still has atom feeds for repos, for example: https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis/commits/master.atom Unfortunately they don't really make links to these feeds very visible in the UI anymore. But toss that in your feed reader of choice and you'll get an update when the awesome list content changes.
twin
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Is there a way to have a full TUI desktop environment?
Twin - a Textmode WINdow environment, by Massimiliano Ghilardi https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
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Asks the Textualize developers anything
There is a twin project that is kind of neat, providing the highest fidelity interface possible (text mode, vnc, X gui) but doesn't have terminal multiplexing built in, or a browser interface.
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What Is TTY?
Kind of related, Textmode Window Environment is interesting.
https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
A couple screenshots are on the old SourceForge site.
- Fun terminal programs GO!
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Hi! I made simple TUI desktop for Linux named TBox
Kind of like TWIN? https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
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Favorite tui programs?
https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/ Seems its still getting some updates.
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Best 💯
If you've never used Twin then you don't know what youre missing!
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The Xterm Window Manager Homepage
A similar concept is available as TWIN: the Textmode WINdowing environment. This is mentioned at the bottom of the "See Also" list at TFA.
https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/
Screenshots at the (presumably old?) Sourceforge page:
What are some alternatives?
notcurses - blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.
vtm - Text-based desktop environment
TerminusBrowser - CLI Reddit, Hacker News, 4chan, and lainchan browser
imtui - ImTui: Immediate Mode Text-based User Interface C++ Library
sfm - simple file manager
xserver-SIXEL - A X server implementation for SIXEL-featured terminals, based on @pelya's Xsdl kdrive server(https://github.com/pelya/xserver-xsdl)
btop4win - btop++ for windows
spectre.console - A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications.
hnterm - :page_with_curl: Hacker News in the terminal
tmux - tmux source code
lnav - Log file navigator
CliFx - Class-first framework for building command-line interfaces