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Dev tools · May 21, 2023

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Trogon – An automatic TUI for command line apps

Hi HN, Trogon is a project to generate a TUI for command line apps. It presents the arguments, options, and switches as a form. Editing the form generates a command line, which you can then run with a keypress. I'm a lover of the command line. But I can recall only a fraction of the switches for most commands I use. I would love it if there was a TUI available for most commands. Trogon currently works with Python and the Click library, but I would like it to cover more of the Python ecosystem and also generate TUIs for apps not written in Python. More information in the repository. Let me…

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Trogon automatically generates text-based user interfaces for command line applications, displaying arguments, options, and switches as interactive forms. Users can edit the form to construct commands and execute them with a single keystroke, eliminating the need to remember complex command syntax. Currently compatible with Python applications using the Click library, the tool aims to expand support across the broader Python ecosystem and non-Python applications.

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Hi HN, Trogon is a project to generate a TUI for command line apps. It presents the arguments, options, and switches as a form. Editing the form generates a command line, which you can then run with a keypress. I'm a lover of the command line. But I can recall only a fraction of the switches for most commands I use. I would love it if there was a TUI available for most commands. Trogon currently works with Python and the Click library, but I would like it to cover more of the Python ecosystem and also generate TUIs for apps not written in Python. More information in the repository. Let me know what you think...

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