charmbracelet/gum

Features

• Interactive CLI Tooling - Provides a suite of modular components for building interactive, visually styled command-line interfaces directly within shell scripts.
• Terminal UI Frameworks - Enables the creation of professional command-line experiences through a declarative framework for formatting text, managing layouts, and capturing user input.
• ANSI Escape Sequence Renderers - Generates ANSI escape sequences to apply colors, borders, and formatting to terminal output.
• Shell Scripting Utilities - Offers a library of interactive widgets that simplify data collection, file navigation, and task progress indication in terminal workflows.
• Terminal Output Stylers - Enhances command-line readability by applying colors, markdown, and structured layouts to terminal output.
• Interactive Command Interfaces - Builds visually styled command-line interfaces using modular components for script interaction.
• Progress Indicators - Provides animated spinners and status indicators to give visual feedback during long-running command-line operations.
• Model-View-Update Runtimes - Implements a message-passing architecture for state management in interactive terminal interfaces.
• Native Input Prompts - Captures user-provided strings through interactive text input fields in shell scripts.
• User Confirmation Dialogs - Creates intuitive prompts, selection menus, and confirmation dialogs for user interaction in shell scripts.
• Command Line Tools - Tool for building shell scripts with TUI.
• Shell Scripting Tools - Tool for creating interactive and styled shell scripts.
• TUI Libraries - Tool for shell script TUIs.
• File System Navigators - Enables interactive directory browsing and file selection directly within command-line interfaces.
• Task Status Monitors - Monitors background tasks by providing visual feedback through spinners and status logs.
• Input Collection Components - Gathers data from users through interactive text fields and selection lists.
• Masked Inputs - Prompts users for text entries with support for masking sensitive characters.
• Selectable Lists - Presents interactive lists that support fuzzy-matched filtering and selection for command-line workflows.
• Text Rendering - Renders markdown, syntax-highlighted code, and structured tables to improve terminal output readability.
• Item Navigation and Selection - Filters lists of options using fuzzy matching for single or multiple item selection.
• Terminal UI Layouts - Provides declarative primitives for arranging terminal UI elements using a box-model approach.
• Fuzzy Matching - Uses string similarity algorithms to filter and rank list items for rapid selection.
• Background Processing Tools - Displays animated spinners to indicate activity during background command execution.
• Viewport Navigators - Provides a scrollable viewport for viewing and navigating lengthy text content within the terminal.
• Terminal Viewports - Manages scrollable regions and windowing logic to render large text buffers within constrained terminal dimensions.
• Terminal Layout Engines - Structures command-line interfaces by arranging components into organized layouts.
• Selection Tables - Displays structured data in tables and allows users to select specific rows for further processing.
• Standard Input/Output Streams - Integrates with shell environments by reading from standard input and writing to standard output.
• Content Display Components - Renders long documents in a scrollable viewport with line numbers and display settings.
• Text Formatting Utilities - Formats command-line output using markdown, code highlighting, and templates.
• Text Styling - Renders text with custom colors, styles, and markdown support.
• Visual Status Indicators - Provides visual feedback through spinners and formatted logs to communicate task status.

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