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xavierog

Re:Writing Programs with Ncurses on Thursday March 27, 2025 @07:51AM (#43492629)
> Not gonna lie, it's still not a turnkey solution that transformed my clumsy scripts into a beautiful TUI without work but it's close!

Can you elaborate on that? Are your "clumsy scripts" written in Python, shell or another language? Have you tried Textual-based tools like Trogon [1] and Moulti? [2]

[1] https://github.com/Textualize/trogon [2] https://moulti.run/

Show HN: Moulti: a CLI-driven TUI for a better, clearer display of script output

https://github.com/xavierog/moulti

Moulti is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) that displays steps, i.e. collapsible colored boxes with titles, to which one can pipe arbitrary outputs through a Command-Line Interface (CLI): whatever | moulti pass step_id This results in a clear, step-by-step display of the output, as opposed to the traditional 'just a bunch of lines' approach. Individual steps may be copied to the clipboard and...

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