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Stefan HallerandClaude Opus 5 81851dcbbf Show a selection in the focused main view
The focused main view could be scrolled but not pointed at: there was no
way to say "this line" or "these lines", which is what every line-level
interaction needs — editing a line, copying part of a diff, and, later,
staging. So a diff main view now always carries a selection while focused,
starting at the first change already on screen so that focusing doesn't
move the view.

The mode of the selection lives on the main context (a single line, a
range from a fixed anchor, or the change block around the cursor); the
selected line and the range anchor stay in the view itself, whose native
range select draws them, so there is no new highlight machinery. The modes
and their keys are the ones the staging view has, including that the arrow
keys step from block to block in hunk mode.

A pane holds something to select only when what it is showing is a diff
with changes in it, which the render works out once its content is final: a
placeholder message is not a diff, and neither is a diff with nothing in it
at all, such as a binary file's or an empty commit's. Whether a selection
is then drawn there follows from the context stack, as it does for every
other view.

A click in the focused main view now has a meaning again: it selects the
line it points at.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 10:03:31 +02:00
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GOCUI - Go Console User Interface

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Minimalist Go package aimed at creating Console User Interfaces. A community fork based on the amazing work of jroimartin

Features

  • Minimalist API.
  • Views (the "windows" in the GUI) implement the interface io.ReadWriter.
  • Support for overlapping views.
  • The GUI can be modified at runtime (concurrent-safe).
  • Global and view-level keybindings.
  • Mouse support.
  • Colored text.
  • Customizable editing mode.
  • Easy to build reusable widgets, complex layouts...

About fork

This fork has many improvements over the original work from jroimartin.

  • Written ontop of TCell
  • Better wide character support
  • Support for 1 Line height views
  • Better support for running in docker container
  • Customize frame colors
  • Improved code comments and quality
  • Many small improvements
  • Change Visibility of views

For information about this org see: awesome-gocui/about.

Installation

Execute:

$ go get github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui

Documentation

Execute:

$ go doc github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui

Or visit godoc.org to read it online.

Example

See the _example folder for more examples

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui"
)

func main() {
	g, err := gocui.NewGui(gocui.OutputNormal, true)
	if err != nil {
		log.Panicln(err)
	}
	defer g.Close()

	g.SetManagerFunc(layout)

	if err := g.SetKeybinding("", gocui.KeyCtrlC, gocui.ModNone, quit); err != nil {
		log.Panicln(err)
	}

	if err := g.MainLoop(); err != nil && !gocui.IsQuit(err) {
		log.Panicln(err)
	}
}

func layout(g *gocui.Gui) error {
	maxX, maxY := g.Size()
	if v, err := g.SetView("hello", maxX/2-7, maxY/2, maxX/2+7, maxY/2+2, 0); err != nil {
		if !gocui.IsUnknownView(err) {
			return err
		}

		if _, err := g.SetCurrentView("hello"); err != nil {
			return err
		}

		fmt.Fprintln(v, "Hello world!")
	}

	return nil
}

func quit(g *gocui.Gui, v *gocui.View) error {
	return gocui.ErrQuit
}

Screenshots

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_examples/demo.go

_examples/dynamic.go

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  • cointop: Interactive terminal based UI application for tracking cryptocurrencies.
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Note: if your project is not listed here, let us know! :)