From: Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: OT: TUI applications
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:55:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAjq1meJXsB8A9izHG=_a6EV6wqNNb0pyxDPnCRVUxU9Kdx+_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171018132338.GA29427@volibear.adamsinfoserv.com>
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Russell Adams <RLAdams@adamsinfoserv.com>
wrote:
> Given the unique user base of Org, I wanted to ask a question.
>
> Has anyone seen any modern development libraries for TUI (console /
> character cell) applications? Ncurses the library is
> not an answer as you have to start from scratch. There are thousands of
> web frameworks, and yet console is infinitely
> simpler than a LAMP stack, but there are no prepackaged libraries for
> working with it (ie: forms, widgets, etc).
>
> I frequently find myself in the position to need a small custom database
> application for this or that (contacts,
> invoicing, recipes!). Python (or similar) + SQLite seems like a no
> brainer, except I don't want webapps or a giant GUI
> program like libreoffice Base. I'd use something that was text forms based
> like an old dBase product.
>
> I've looked at Emacs forms, but they appear to be only for editing CSV
> data.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/widget.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-18 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-18 13:23 OT: TUI applications Russell Adams
2017-10-18 13:58 ` Allan Streib
2017-10-18 14:44 ` Russell Adams
2017-10-18 15:55 ` Grant Rettke [this message]
2017-10-18 16:47 ` Russell Adams
2017-10-20 16:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2017-10-18 22:05 ` Tim Cross
2017-10-18 22:39 ` Russell Adams
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