rich VS python-prompt-toolkit

- rich, a base rich text library with tons of raw capabilities and convenience classes/functions. `tempy` makes use of `rich` for all its rendering capabilities.

Both are python libraries written by Will McGugan, designed to bring stylized text formatting to terminals and consoles.

https://github.com/Textualize/rich

You should check out https://github.com/Textualize/rich to enhance your terminal outputs.

To keep things simple my choice fell on console output, but I knew Python has some nice libraries about formatting text in the terminal such as rich so my derived classes were refactored to implement console rendering.

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Will McGugan is among the most well-known Python developers. He's the author of Rich, a library for formatting output in the terminal. It's used, among others, by pip, and has more than 40K stars on GitHub. In 2021, Will started building Textual, a TUI (text user interface) framework based on Rich. At the end of the year, he founded the company Textualize.

I don't know if this will work for your case, but Rich has easy progress bars. The new windows terminal uses it for loading bars for pip.

I found this code in the rich/examples folder in the Github.

Euporie uses prompt_toolkit as its TUI library. prompt_toolkit does not specifically support terminal graphics, but I've written various of custom components and modifications to enable images to be displayed using terminal graphics.

That bothered me too, the default function for Ctrl-W in ipython is unix-word-rubout from python-prompt-toolkit [1], which uses spaces for word boundaries. You can rebind it to backward-kill-word so it uses "not a letter nor a digit" as a word boundary.

Here's a gist with my config (also binds shift-left/right arrow to move to previous space instead of visual select): https://gist.github.com/fratajczak/64e32421a43d3b8194d0409ce...

[1]: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit/blob...

When coding in python I've used ptpython repl based on prompt-toolkit which has been used in numerous CLI programs https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit/blob/master/PROJECTS.rst. I've also used mycli from that page. I've really enjoyed the UX of these. In addition to the syntax highlighting, auto/tab completions, (and maybe other enjoyable features) the vi-mode is amazingly helpful (for us vi folks) (it's probably got emacs bindings too). I would love to have all of this in a repl for lua.

That's an interesting approach. I was also thinking of using a more sophisticated framework than whiptail, maybe the PromptToolkit. I guess it then would be more similar to the idea of using a text editor. I certainly do think a TUI may be overkill yet it was also a good excuse to practice some bash scripting for me.

Try prompt_toolkit which is a Python library used by IPython among others: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit

https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit is good if you want to create your own CLI inside your TUI (command line within a TUI that can do fancy stuff like Emacs keybindings and tab completion). It's very powerful.