coating creates a clickable pane, based on the standard input.
or more precise:
coating reads lines from STDIN, allowing you to interactively select a value, which is then returned to STDOUT.
- coating enables interactive filters in piped commands
- a unix-philosophy experiment
- brings the mouse to the cli :)
- a fzf inspired tool
But, what does it do?
- Every non-white space becomes a token
- Every token will be possible element for selection
- After a selection, the token will be returned through standard output
Here are some examples, after the installation step
This will open the selected file/directory of the current directory in vim:
vim $(ls -C | coating)Another possible usage is this:
ls -C | coating | xargs xdg-openThis opens the selected file with it's standard application.
For more ways to use coating check out the examples directory.
- when run with the
--tagsflag, coating will look for HTML tags (excluding semantics) and makes tag bodies clickable. - this function allows for a predefinition of clickable elements, in contrast to the default case, where every non-whitespace character is clickable
- if the tags are nested, only the highest level of tags is clickable
- in the case ther are no tags in the text, every word will be tokenized and clickable.
Note
only tested / written for linux
You can install coating from the PyPI repositories using the following command:
pip install coating
or check the realease page for a manual installation.
on ubuntu first install ncurses-term:
apt install ncurses-term
Important
This tool currently supports python3.10 and upwards
On version with a python version lower than 3.10 the curses.BUTTON5 constant is not supported.
Please report possible issues here.
This project is licensed under the GPLv3 License.
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