tiny-cli-editor

A nano-like command line editor. Really basic, but very lightweight. Can be used as a programmatically from JS.

The following features are missing, but I'd like to implement them in the future:

• copy to clipboard, paste from it
• ask for confirmation on ctrl+c

I won't implement these features:

• syntax highlighting
• panels/bars/overlays
• mouse support
• plugin system

tiny-cli-editor uses prompt-skeleton to have a behavior consistent with other prompts.

Installing

npm install tiny-cli-editor # to use it as a library
npm install -g tiny-cli-editor # to use it from the shell

Usage

editor index.js

Ctrl + C to abort, Ctrl + D to save the file.

To use tiny-cli-editor programmatically:

const editor = require('tiny-cli-editor')

editor('Hello this is dog.')
.on('data', (text) => {
	// do something with the text
})
.on('abort', (text) => {
	// do something with the text
})
.on('submit', (text) => {
	// do something with the text
})

Related

• date-prompt
• mail-prompt
• multiselect-prompt
• number-prompt
• range-prompt
• select-prompt
• text-prompt
• tree-select-prompt
• cli-autocomplete
• switch-prompt

Contributing

If you have a question, found a bug or want to propose a feature, have a look at the issues page.