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Ncurses is a pretty low level to target, nowadays. I’d recommend something like Urwid (for Python) or similar higher-level for your language of choice.

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If you want some kind of abstraction termbox is a pretty reasonable level above straight ncurses. There's also termbox-go fwiw. https://github.com/nsf/termbox https://github.com/nsf/termbox-go

Do you have any good links to documentation / examples for termbox? That's been the biggest missing piece for looking into it in my limited spare time.

Do you know of any for Ruby? Most of them seemed abandoned when I looked around.

Ruby used to ship with ncurses-support built-in but it was fairly low-level and it moved to https://github.com/ruby/curses

Ncurses is my preferred tools still.

look at ranger FIle Manager with VIM shortcuts. The fastest and best File Manager I have ever used. http://ranger.nongnu.org/

Surprisingly I stopped using it because a few times, it was lagging.

Well it is built on Python and for the life of me I never have a consistent experience with several python tools. (I still love Python, but I have really stopped using it personally)

Yeah, I know, I didn't expect blazing fast, it was just that too much slow for me to notice and stop caring. Retrying now, maybe python changed, maybe I did, maybe my laptop.

Ranger hicups very rearly. The speed of doing my files is just way to easy. I love :bulkrename with vim opens up and I change the file names in Vim :wq and boom files renamed.

It varies hugely for a single user (me).

That looks _fantastic_. Thanks!

If you like having media previews in console windows, terminology is also a lot of fun.

For those who have as much difficulty googling this as I did: https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology

ranger does this with image previews in xterm/uxterm and rxvt/urxvt.

Like Turbo Vision? :)

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