textual VS ratatui

The Textual project has a lot of screenshots in its documentation. These screenshots are built with the docs, so they are always up to date.

https://textual.textualize.io/

Textual[0] does this for CLI apps. That’s not for full GUI apps, but it’s very DOM-like, uses CSS selectors, etc. and a cool option when it meets your needs.

[0] https://github.com/Textualize/textual

For future projects that need a TUI beyond normal printing to a terminal, I'd recommend taking a look at Textual.

https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/content/code-outputs.html#...

`less -R` is not the default.

FWIW, textual (and urwid) does ANSII escape codes well: https://github.com/Textualize/textual

  touch file$'\n'name

After installing logmerger, you can run a self-contained demo by running logmerger --demo, to view two log files before and after they are merged, and to play with the user-interface features provided by textual.

I think it just survived naturally, filling in the cracks left by Java / C++.

And not the era of Textual (https://textual.textualize.io/) is here, python may get the spotlight even more.

> If someone plopped me in front of a rust codebase I'd be at the mercy of the manual for quite a long time.

This is not a representative sample of Rust. That's explicitly triggering edge cases which requires abuse of syntax you wouldn't normally see.

Check out this for something more realistic that anyone should understand https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/blob/main/examples/ca...

nice work!

can I use "cargo install --git https://github.com/aabiji/muse"?

I also recommend:

https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui

https://github.com/mikaelmello/inquire

for your further development

I also have a Rust CLI music project here if you want to have a look

https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli

There are apps that are built on ratatui that support mouse already including an example in the repo[1], and crates (and some internal changes to the buffer) to support iterm/kitty/sixel based images.[2]

[1]: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui/tree/main/examples#cu...

[2]: https://crates.io/crates/ratatui-image

Compared to TurboVision, Ratatui has a lot of missing things:

- Containers

- Dialog types (I'm working on this in https://github.com/joshka/tui-prompts)

- Higher order combinations of widgets (e.g. combine the scrollbar and paragraph)

- Menus

- Any event system (apps bring their own - we just handle display)

- etc.

- There's lots of things in TV that are provided as external crates (like editors, treeview, etc.)

The main thing is that Ratatui is at least right now, just the display side of things. Things to do with events or application shell aren't built-in. This somewhat stems from the immediate vs retained mode approach to the library, but this may change in the future.

The TUI is built with the awesome Ratatui [0] library (formerly tui-rs [1]). UX is certainly not my area of expertise and I would not have been able to create Trippy without this library.

[0] https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui

[1] https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs