lei interactive TUIs (ncurses/vim/emacs)

lei interactive TUIs (ncurses/vim/emacs)

[Eric Wong]

I hardly have any experience in this area; but automatic
end-to-end tests for ncurses and other TUI stuff seems
like a huge pain...

I've also noticed vim has scripting abilities (like Emacs?) and
notmuch bundles a vim extension we can take inspiration from.
Perhaps we could bundle vim and Emacs extensions for lei, too...

While I use vim[1], I've always kept my vim decoupled from Perl
(or Lua, Python, Ruby, TCL, etc) and rather tie stuff together
with pipes.  IOW, I'm happy my editor can run arbitrary shell
commands; but don't want stuff linked into my editor (since more
code is usually more fragile).

So, any thoughts on this matter?

Anybody willing to maintain an lei TUI for emacs?
I might give a vim TUI a shot...

But writing and testing a FUSE FS is much more natural...


[1] My choice to use vi/vim is merely because it's the most
    widely-installed editor on random systems I ssh into.
    It also mostly works the same after a few decades w/o
    needing UI changes; same goes for Perl.

Re: lei interactive TUIs (ncurses/vim/emacs)

[Kyle Meyer]

[ I missed this (just saw it mentioned in a recent message). ]

Eric Wong writes:

> I've also noticed vim has scripting abilities (like Emacs?) and
> notmuch bundles a vim extension we can take inspiration from.
> Perhaps we could bundle vim and Emacs extensions for lei, too...
[...]
> So, any thoughts on this matter?
>
> Anybody willing to maintain an lei TUI for emacs?

As part of piem [1], I've done some work on an Emacs interface for lei,
in particular `lei q'.  It's pretty bare-bones (been meaning to get back
to it...), but it's functional for searching and basic viewing.

[1]: https://git.kyleam.com/piem/about/