Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

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cointop

#Crypto #Cryptocurrencies #Productivity 1 social mentions

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JOE

> Unlike emacs or vim or even nano, it didn't have a bunch of invisible shortcut keys, just a Windows-like drop-down menu system (but rendered in DOS). You might like "joe", which was inspired by WordStar: <https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/>.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 15 social mentions

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.

#Disk Analyzer #OS & Utilities #Hard Disk Usage 22 social mentions

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lazygit

Sounds like something comparable to LazyGit. <a href="https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit">https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit</a>.

#Git #Development #Git Tools 85 social mentions

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Lazydocker

Lazydocker [0] is by the same author as lazygit. I'm thoroughly familiar with the Docker CLI, but sometimes it's just easier to use a GUI or TUI for some things. In particular, I use lazydocker for cleaning up volumes or images that may no longer be needed. [0] <a href="https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker">https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker</a>.

#DevOps Tools #Developer Tools #Kubernetes 24 social mentions

6

btop

Some alternatives: * `vifm` file manager, more powerful and performant than ranger, for those who lean towards vim keybindings: https://vifm.info/ * `btop` process monitor, for those who like eye candy: <a href="https://github.com/aristocratos/btop">https://github.com/aristocratos/btop</a>.

#Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools #Performance Monitoring 6 social mentions

7

ELinks

And elinks as well. It had better handling of page layout. http://elinks.or.cz/.

#Rental Property Management #Automation #Web Browsers 7 social mentions

8

Ctop

Ctop is pretty nice, if a bit basic: https://ctop.sh/ There's also k9s: https://k9scli.io/ And of course htop and nano!

#Monitoring Tools #Command Line Tools #Performance Monitoring 1 social mentions

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Ratatui

As a sound and music computing person, I rarely used tui before although I use cli tools often, e.g. SoX. I usually use Audacity to record on Mac. But then I realized I wanted a tool that could quickly open and record inspiration, and that's when TUI came into play: I decided to write my own custom tool called asak (audio Swiss Army Knife) [1] This way I can quickly record on Mac, and of course, since this is Rust and ratatui [2], this tool should also be cross-platform. [1] https://github.com/chaosprint/asak.

#URL Shortener #IDE #Bookmark Manager 1 social mentions

10

LNAV

The Logfile Navigator (https://lnav.org) is a log file viewer/merger/tailer for the terminal. It has some advanced UX features, like showing previews of operations and displaying context sensitive help. For example, the preview for filtering out logs by regex is to highlight the lines that will be hidden in red. This can make crafting the right regex a bit easier since the preview updates as you type. lnav also has some simple bar charting abilities, so you can visualize the results of SQL queries made against the log messages.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Realtime Analytics 61 social mentions

11

GoAccess

Not forgotten by any means but goaccess is nice and simple to use https://goaccess.io/.

#Web Analytics #Analytics #Monitoring Tools 53 social mentions

12

acme

Which another comment mentioned. http://acme.cat-v.org/.

#Vineyard And Winery Management #Marketing Platform #ERP 14 social mentions

13

MOC

On that note, moc (http://moc.daper.net/) is also pretty nice.

#Audio Player #Media Player #Video Player 9 social mentions

14

Twin

In the same TUI spirit: <a href="https://github.com/cosmos72/twin">https://github.com/cosmos72/twin</a> A text mode environment and window manager, with terminal emulation, VNC-style sessions and viewers, and networked clients. Disclaimer: I'm the author.

#AI #Writing Tools #SSH 1 social mentions

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lf (file manager)

A very good alternative to ranger is lf <a href="https://github.com/gokcehan/lf">https://github.com/gokcehan/lf</a> It's a lot faster in all aspects, has mostly the same features and is pretty much a standalone binary.

#FTP Client #File Manager #Robo-Advisor 62 social mentions