RUrussellendicott·May 17, 2022
I've found that tcell works pretty well across many different OS terminals.
https://github.com/gdamore/tcell
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Tcell is an alternate terminal package, similar in some ways to termbox, but better in others.
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8 sourcesHow about some libraries that help with building TUIs?
I'll start with https://github.com/rivo/tview/ and https://github.com/gdamore/tcell
In TUIsIt looks like Tcell probably, assuming I've understood what Tcell does correctly.
https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/
In Ask HN: Recommendations for Good TUI Libraries (Text User Interface)?Are you talking about ncurses like interfaces? I have been using tview - https://github.com/rivo/tview/ (based on another library tcell - https://github.com/gdamore/tcell). Very useful.
In Diving into Go by building a CLI applicationTcell is an alternate terminal package, similar in some ways to termbox
4 points · Open discussionAnother alternative to consider is https://github.com/gdamore/tcell
termbox-go has a couple of pretty wicked global variables, and they caused me a surprising amount of issues last time I used it. By contrast, tcell has good interfaces, and it shows: tcell even has a SimulationScreen you can use for testing.
In Termbox-Go – A minimalistic Go curses libraryNice work by the author. Honestly, though, it doesn't scratch an itch for me personally, since I'm pretty happy with https://github.com/fatih/vim-go ... This is like the ultimate vim plugin for Go and includes the kitchen sink, remarkably via included go tools for the most part:
- More colors than a christmas tree
- Autocomplete via gocode
- Auto-gofmt and auto-goimports
- Safe refactoring / renaming support
- Follow references / callers / callees via go oracle
- Show test coverage
- Show godocs
- golint, go vet,
And I'm still not remembering like 30 other features. If you're a vim user and haven't checked out vim-go, give it a look.
As someone else had pointed out, this new editor has pointed me in the direction of https://github.com/gdamore/tcell which looks mighty interesting indeed...
In Micro – a command line text editor in GoHuh, hadn't heard of tcell:
https://github.com/gdamore/tcell
In Micro – a command line text editor in Go