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https://github.com/jonas/tig is one of the first things I install on a new dev machine. It's a really nice UI for staging files or hunks. Since it's just a companion to the git CLI, it feels much more focused than full-blown git GUIs, and doesn't do anything magical.
These certainly aren't forgotten, but I like: * `ranger` file manager: https://ranger.github.io/ * `ncdu` for visualising disk usage: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu * `htop` process monitor: https://htop.dev/ I just find them very intuitive, and information-dense while not being overwhelming.
* `vifm` file manager, more powerful and performant than ranger, for those who lean towards vim keybindings: https://vifm.info/gallery.shtml
* `btop` process monitor, for those who like eye candy: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop?tab=readme-ov-file#main...
The other day I found many TUI tools on a site called Terminal Trove: https://terminaltrove.com/ And it also features a great list of them here that many might not have heard of. https://terminaltrove.com/list/ For example trippy and nvtop look very nice for TUIs and other 'top' based tools they have listed there. https://terminaltrove.com/categories/top/ https://terminaltrove.com/trippy/ https://terminaltrove.com/nv…
Well you have the MS-DOS era Borland tools. Someone took the time to rewrite it as a cross-platform open source library: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision Edit: Not a rewrite, but a port. See comments below.
It’s a data exploration tool packed with features, but my regular use case is to just pipe some json into it to get a table view; it lets you easily explode nested fields into separate columns which I find tremendously helpful when digging
It created a simple dialog-based menu that allow to explore topic and search through them (and edit and print). I think it used Turbo-Vision, but I may be misremembering.
Some things I don't like about modern TUIs is developers getting away from the purpose of them, portability. Often you'll find really beautiful TUIs that require installation of custom fonts for icons and other overcomplicated stuff like that. They can be nice, but generally they sacrifice the practical benefit to a significant degree.
One I discovered yesterday, not really a TUI, more of a shell but still, extremely powerful, is kalc https://github.com/bgkillas/kalc which is a complete scientific and graphing calculator in the terminal. It depends on gnuplot for graphing, which is unfortunate since it is a GUI program, but there we go with composability again! It's fine and works and does what it needs to, so not really a big deal I guess.
I also use Helix editor and sc-im daily.
To find more:
It's pretty good but I had to add a bit of sub-process parallelization since I have a long running process in the background.
Toolong is a log file viewer / tailer (https://github.com/Textualize/toolong)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe Norton Commander was the original product (for MS DOS), Midnight Commander is its open-source cross-platform clone. FAR Manager is another notable TUI clone of NC. Windows Commander/Total Commander are also NC clones, but implemented as GUI instead of TUI. NC was one of the most convenient UIs for managing files, it’s a pity none of the major operating systems adopted this style for their default file manag…
Volkov Commander should get an honorable mention here, it is a tiny reimplementation of the NC interface. On the FAR Manager level of complexity DOS Navigator is also notable.