upterm VS mps-youtube

The reason you don’t see a feature like blocks (with the exception of Upterm) in most other terminals is because the terminal has no concept of what program is running, or really of anything that’s happening within the shell. At a high level, a terminal reads and writes bytes from a pseudoterminal to interact with the shell. This technology is very antiquated--the shell essentially thinks it is interacting with a... - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

Suprised that no one has mentioned this, but upterm seems to be exactly what you're describing--a terminal emulator that shows a drop-down list of suggestions with explanations. Sadly, only a few commands are supported, and it's no longer being worked on. Source: over 2 years ago

Currently haven't gone as far as making some kind of dedicated shell component though. I find it important that normal shells can work fine with in Extraterm. There was a project from a few years back which also mashed GUI/emulator together with the shell side, Upterm. SSH and containers tend to be the natural enemy of having your own shell though. Source: about 3 years ago

This conflicts with yewtube, which incidentally, you may be interested in. Source: about 1 year ago

If you're comfortable with a text based interface, there's also the yewtube program which runs from the terminal and is pretty neat. Source: about 1 year ago

I haven't tried these but they seem to do what you're looking for: Mps-youtube Ytfzf. Source: almost 2 years ago

For youtube there is this commandline tool. Though it seems this fork is not that active any more: https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube. Source: about 2 years ago

I'm using mps-yotube, https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube with cvlc and confused about controls, how to pause, how to skip, etc. Source: about 2 years ago