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This is just a simple multi-line editor for the terminal (VT100). It is a bit like input (doc) but supporting multiple lines and behaving more like a simple editor. It is different to other editors and other TUI frameworks in that it will not go full-screen but only use the last N lines of the terminal. It is intended to be simple and flexible and hackable, i.e. the behavior can be changed, typing events can be handled, etc. It takes extra care to handle terminal resizing. It also supports to show a status bar (potential multi-line).

Homepage: https://github.com/albertz/py-tui-editor

Installation

The project is on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/tui-editor/

Thus you can just do:

pip install tui-editor

Usage

Simple empty editor:

>>> from tui_editor import TuiEditor
>>> editor = TuiEditor()
>>> editor.edit()
>>> editor.get_text()
'Hello World!'

Predefined editable text:

>>> from tui_editor import TuiEditor
>>> editor = TuiEditor()
>>> editor.set_text('Hello World!')
>>> editor.edit()
>>> editor.get_text()
'Hello World!'

Screenshot

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/albertz/py-tui-editor/master/screenshots/2022-08-21.png?sanitize=true

Motivation

Python TUI?

What I want:

  • simple multi-line editor

  • not whole screen but only next N lines

  • show interactive feedback. e.g. mark edits, show number of edits, show diff in separate plane or so

Licence

MIT License

History

2015 Paul Sokolovsky: picotui project seditor.py example. 2022 Albert Zeyer: extend and redesign and package just the text editor as this library.

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html

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