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How do you make terminal interfaces all fancy looking? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 days ago by a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca to c/learn_programming@programming.dev

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Some terminal applications are positively deluxe. Completely decked out. Here are some examples (these are all screenshots from my terminal emulator):

So my question is: how do I design a terminal application to look like that?

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[–] a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

For a tui, there are probably going to be a large number of (possibly reconfigurable) keyboard shortcuts and maybe some sort of command system. How you let the user know about all of them without having to memorize a giant table can be difficult.

That makes sense. In my case I’m looking to play around with the reticulum network / nomandnet so in that case the user would already be knee deep in the tui, so these issues could hopefully be avoided