vimtk VS asciimatics

quickopen is also available as a functionvimtk#quickopen from my vimtk plugin.

The pyperclip library is responsible for a good portion of my productivity. It powers my vimtk vim plugin, which lets you `a` on a line or visual selection, then it copy / pastes that line into the most recently opened terminal, and then returns focus back to gvim (it does require gvim, because I don't know how to differentiate between a terminal where you are executing bash/python and a terminal you are using vim to edit with; if anyone has ideas on how to do this I'd love to know).

For small apps, I may choose a TUI (Terminal User Interface). Curses for Python is very lightweight, but quite low level and difficult to use for anything more than a very simple interface (if your app tries to draw outside of the drawing area, the app crashes, so you have to carefully manage every detail). Textual and asciimatics are both mature TUI frameworks that provide a higher level and more Pythonic way to create TUI's.

If you are looking for something more flexible that just printing to a terminal, take a look at Asciimatics and textual. Both are available from Pypi.

Scroll down to the TUI example in the README, just above the documentation link: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics

Download fireworks.py

Source code: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/blob/master/samples/fireworks.py

I have made yet another ssh connection manager with TUI, using asciimatics and tinyDB.

Personally I dig the aesthetics of asciimatics, it's quite handy and cross-platform.

I've used asciimatics in the past to good effect.

Take a look at rich (kinda new, but pretty neat), asciimatics, or urwid