looking for nice cli/tui programs

what are you guys' favorite random/novelty cli and tui programs in general? i'll share some
of my favorites too. maybe someone else will get a kick out of them. all can
be found on github!

- jrnl (command line journal/note tool)
- dooit (tui task manager)
- botany (simple virtual pet plant)
- glow (markdown viewer/formatter)

- mutt as a mail client
- lynx/sacc for gopher
- gopher://magical.fish as a huge Gopher portal
- mcabber for Jabber, or profanity
- mocp for music
- sxiv for images
- mpv for videos
- yt-dlp for mpv 
- slrn for news
- catgirl for irc
- not TUI, but herbe works for a light vm such as cwm
to show up notifications for catgirl
- mosh for SSH, it uses far less bandwidth against
your tildeverse 
- entr. It watches for files and directories, it something
changes, it can spawn anything. 
- gnuplot for plots
- basic AWK for sums on rows/columns
- nvi for edits
- iomenu instead of fzf, it's far lighter.
A 'holes' shell function:

holes() { cat ~/gopher_sites.txt | iomenu | xargs sacc ; }

content within ~/gopher_sites.txt:
 
gopher:/sdf.org
gopher://magical.fish
gopher://hoi.st
gopher://gopher.icu

sox (it has multiple uses but I motly use for the spectrogram image creation for analyzing audio quality)

I just remembered this:

awesome-TUIs list
https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis/

  Ohhhh, now now I do have a *lot* to read! <3

Micro
https://micro-editor.github.io/
Still haven't figured out Vi, but Micro does what I want.

NewsBoat
https://newsboat.org/

I don't RSS like I feel I should, but it's on my short list 
of stuff I use when i do CLI

TMUX
https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki
Whenever i connect to any of the tilde servers, I use this.
Especially for the tilde I connect to IRC from.

Speaking of IRC

WeeChat
https://weechat.org/
For some reason I find this easier to understand than IRSSI. Couldn't give
a good explanation on why.

I sadly have less fondness for trying actual web browsing over CLI.

i don't know how obvious some of these might be but:

- ncdu (tui to analyze disk usage)
- translate-shell (cli google translate tool, uses really nice syntax ex. 'trans en:de Hello'
- jq (CLI json parser, very nice for scripts, esp. when parsing http requests)
- magick (CLI image editing / converting tool) (very useful for converting from one format to another: 'magick convert file.jpeg file.png')
- yt-dlp (download videos from a ton of different websites) 
- nnn / vifm (CLI file managers, i don't really use them but they could be nice for someone)

- obviously tmux, vim, fzf, rg are a must

On a TUI file manager, that's needed because often there are non
ASCII/European filenames impossible to pick with core Unix
utilities.
I use sff https://codeberg.org/sylphenix/sff and soap (https://2f30.org) as an opener.

these are some really good suggestions, thank you both!

Do you know calcurse? https://www.calcurse.org/

Maybe not "nice" but I just realised you can paste a list of mp4 urls into a file, then run mpv $(cat file) and it will loop and play all the files from the URL. I'm doing it with recent war videos that are about 8 seconds long each.

termshark https://github.com/gcla/termshark  is super useful if you are troubleshooting
you also get cool shark effects when it's idle

CLI:

- ffmpeg is love, ffmpeg is life.

TUI:

- Spotify-tui: disregarding the fact that Spotify is a propreitary, DRM-ridden platform, this tui utility is quite impressive.
  (https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui)

- Soft-Serve - Minimal Git server with TUI https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve
- btop - A better top/htop https://github.com/aristocratos/btop
- ranger - File manager https://github.com/ranger/ranger
- aerc - Email client https://aerc-mail.org/

I recently also discovered a command line music player called rmpc with kitty image support. Works pretty well in most cases and even supports an audio visualizer. https://github.com/mierak/rmpc

oooh ty for this rec!

just a quick thank-you to everyone so for who has posted replies! these are
some really cool tools that i likely would not have found otherwise ^^

The Traditional Vi,
descending directly form Bill Joy's work at Berkeley:

    <https://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/>

It is installed on Tilde.Club at:

    /usr/archaic/bin/

par -- an ingenious paragraph formatter:

    <http://www.nicemice.net/par/>

If I didn't overlooked it, 'mc'.
It's tui file manager.

Yes, mc, or Midnight Commander.  My major problem with it
is that many of its very useful keybindings are by default
not working on the Linux kernel console, so I have to rebind
them in /home/ant/.config/mc/mc.keymap :

[filemanager]
Find                   = alt-/
SplitEqual             =
SplitMore              =
SplitLess              =
ViewFiltered           = 
PutCurrentPath         = alt-a
PutOtherPath           = ctrl-alt-a
PutCurrentSelected     = ctrl-n
PutCurrentFullSelected = ctrl-f
History                = ctrl-y
EditorViewerHistory    = alt-h

[panel]
# Make room for cntr-n:
Down     = down; ctrl+j
Up       = up  ; ctrl+k
CdParent = ctrl-p
History  = ctrl-alt-y

[editor]
History  = alt-h

True, the default keybindings do not work very well. But I don't use mc anyway.
And if invoked by accident, I always have to exit it with 'exit', since F10 
is bound to "volume +" on my machine.

Just wanted to put 'mc' on the tui list.

Oh, but such global breckage of the Fn keys is a grave disgrace! Did you intentioally configure them that way, or are you tolerating (Gibson forbid enjohing!) this default, niche, and multimedia-prioritising configuration? I am sure the operation of the Fn keys can be restored to their original general-purpose glory by UEFI/BIOS and (or) termina/X11 configuration.

Intentionally. I needed volume-, volume+ and both Fn9 and Fn10 were spare. Plus
Fn12 is mute.

I don't use the Fn keys much besides of 'Ctl-Alt Fn1' going to the console, and
there Alt-Fn[2-10] to switch them.

Everything works smooth on the keyboard whithin X.

I see.  And what do you have in a real terminal, without any X?  Oh, observe that you seem to be posting in classic hard-wrapped text, whereas BBJ loves long-lines, that is one loooong line per paragraph. I don't like it, but comply.

Nowadays I dont have to do anything on terminals. Back in the days I had
to fight with vt100s connected to Sun or AIX machines, having no vi but
line editors only. Fortunately these days are gone.

Don't you fire up ed from time to time to feel like a man :-?

I can definitely second a few of these.
NewsBoat is a good RSS reader.
I've used weechat as my client for a bit.

Oh and I like vim a lot.

But for vim I really recommend: vimwiki as a note-taking tool.

If you use vim it's very intuitive and has support for markdown and mediawiki
in addition to its own thing.

It makes it easy to format lists (unordered, ordered, and to-do)
It uses md or wiki style links that make it easy to connect text files together.
And it has a feature for making daily diaries.

I'll check out some of the other stuff in this list.

Someone already mentioned it but

- Micro
  My favourite editor. I'm sure VIM is better but the learning curve is steep
- DUF
  Amazing replacement for `df -h`
- PET - https://github.com/knqyf263/pet
  Snippet manager
- LazyDocker - https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker
  Much cleaner for many containers

pleasantly surprised to see upon checking in that this thread is still getting some responses! i love DUF, i use it at least once every few weeks to check my disk space since the current SSD in my thinkpad is pretty small (256gb) and i want to transfer my data to a bigger one, haha

i'd also like to recommend ggh while i'm here. it helps you keep track of ssh connections more easily without having to type in the whole command every time :)   https://terminaltrove.com/ggh/

GGH is really cool. I have set it up on a few systems. It's just one of those nice tools.

Very sad about Binymin Yawitz though, the coder who wrote it. Same age as me, just hit home a little bit.

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On a brighter note, I also use OpenCode alot. Not for coding, but for general AI use, tidying up folders.etc.

It's a really nice UI and I prefer to type alot in the terminal than on some GUI program.

Yazi's pretty good.

I just found a new one - `Elia` for AI chats in the terminal. Very nice.

There's quite a few listed here! >> https://terminaltrove.com/explore/

yesss, i've been subscribed to their newsletter for a little while now!! lovely little site :)

I like numbat - it's a calculator/programming language with unit support, so I can do something like `20 W * .45 $/kWh -> $/month` and it will tell me how much it costs to leave my server on all month.