reflex-vty
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reflex-vty
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Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
There's a slick little Haskell library that does something similar called reflex-vty:
https://github.com/reflex-frp/reflex-vty#reflex-vty
One thing neither of these libraries appear to have done yet that I would really like is create a more compact window rendering. Currently each window gets a 1-character border. What I would like is something that saves space by collapsing adjacent windows' borders into a single character instead of having two redundant borders next to each other. Of course I get why they do it the way they do, but terminals are often more constrained for space and with complex UIs you can lose a fair amount due to these unnecessary borders. That would be the next thing I'd hack on to improve these kinds of libraries. But alas...too many fun projects to hack on and not enough hours in the day.
turbo
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The Tilde Text Editor
https://github.com/magiblot/turbo which is built using Turbo Vision framework
- Turbo: An experimental text editor based on Scintilla and Turbo Vision
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I miss Turbo C, I've never used such a fantastic IDE again. It could include assembly commands directly from C code, it had a powerful graphics library for the 80s. in forty years I've used many languages, environments, frameworks... but I still miss the simplicity and power of Turbo C under MS/DOS/
also https://github.com/magiblot/turbo
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Lesser Known Terminal Editors
Turbo - editor made using TurboVision, with support for Unicode: https://github.com/magiblot/turbo
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Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
Show them this, too:
https://github.com/magiblot/turbo
Applications like tvedit were designed for MS-DOS, which offered full interaction with the mouse and keyboard, and many of them were commercial products aimed at a general audience. TUI applications from the Unix tradition, however, were designed for use in terminals with limited capabilities, and were aimed at more technical users (or were created by the users themselves).
User-friendly TUI applications in MS-DOS were succeeded by Windows applications, while the largest revolution in the last 20 years in Unix TUIs has been the widespread support of 256/24-bit colors and UTF-8. Hence the gap in usability between the two worlds.
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An experimental text editor based on Scintilla and Turbo Vision
Scintilla provides a few default platform adapters: GTK, Qt, Win32, etc. In order to have it work in a terminal application, I just wrote my own adapter.
What are some alternatives?
blessed-contrib - Build terminal dashboards using ascii/ansi art and javascript
TuiCss - Text-based user interface CSS library
dashing - Terminal dashboards for Python
pkg - Package your Node.js project into an executable
notcurses - blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.
GUMBO-Editor - The simple text editor in written in C++
python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python
tilde - The Tilde text editor
vty-ui - A terminal user interface programming library similar to graphical interfaces such as GTK and QT. (DEPRECATED, see https://github.com/jtdaugherty/brick)
rosshow - Visualize ROS topics inside a terminal with Unicode/ASCII art