skywind3000/vim-quickui
Vim Quickui
Vim-quickui is a text user interface library and plugin for Vim and Neovim editors that renders interactive widgets directly inside terminal environments without external dependencies. The framework provides buffer-independent UI drawing, popup window layering, state-driven event handling, and data-driven dialog generation that constructs modal forms and input controls from declarative data structures.
The extension covers a broad suite of interface components including dropdown menu bars, context menus, scrollable list boxes, confirmation dialogs, and string input prompts. Users can inspect file contents, code definitions, quickfix entries, and help documentation in floating popup windows without altering the underlying window split layout or file buffers. Additional capabilities include buffer switching list boxes, function index navigation, shell command execution inside floating terminal windows, and visual theme customization with configurable color palettes, borders, and character sets.
Features
- Terminal UI Widgets - Rendering classic popup menus, input prompts, and confirmation dialogs directly inside command-line editing environments.
- Text-User Interface Rendering - Renders interactive text user interface widgets directly inside terminal editors without dependencies.
- Floating Terminal Windows - Executes shell processes and interactive commands directly inside floating terminal windows.
- Terminal Text Editors - Adding top-level menu bars, floating terminal windows, and scrollable listboxes to enhance code editing workflows.
