coating 0.0.2

A filter with an pointer interface 🦝

coating creates a clickable pane, based on the standard input.

or more precise:

coating reads lines from STDIN, allowing you to interactively select a value, which is then returned to STDOUT.

• coating enables interactive filters in piped commands
• a unix-philosophy experiment
• brings the mouse to the cli :)
• a fzf inspired tool

But, what does it do?

• Every non-white space becomes a token
• Every token will be possible element for selection
• After a selection, the token will be returned through standard output

Usage

Here are some examples, after the installation step

This will open the selected file/directory of the current directory in vim:

vim $(ls -C | coating)

Another possible usage is this:

ls -C | coating | xargs xdg-open

This opens the selected file with it's standard application.

For more ways to use coating check out the examples directory.

Html Parser

• when run with the --tags flag, coating will look for HTML tags (excluding semantics) and makes tag bodies clickable.
• this function allows for a predefinition of clickable elements, in contrast to the default case, where every non-whitespace character is clickable
• if the tags are nested, only the highest level of tags is clickable
• in the case ther are no tags in the text, every word will be tokenized and clickable.

Installation

[!Note] only tested / written for linux

You can install coating from the PyPI repositories using the following command:

pip install coating

or check the realease page for a manual installation.

on ubuntu first install ncurses-term:

apt install ncurses-term

Issues

[!Important] This tool currently supports python3.10 and upwards

On version with a python version lower than 3.10 the curses.BUTTON5 constant is not supported.

Please report possible issues here.

License

This project is licensed under the GPLv3 License.

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