firecat53 / py_curses_editor Goto Github PK

Currently lines won't wrap to the next line when entering/deleting text. I experimented with this in the past and it was harder than I thought it would be.

Need to use some lessons from tabview and figure out how to deal with the asian double-width characters.

Different text for a single line entry box ('Enter' will save and exit) vs a multi-line box (Ctrl-x or 'F2' saves).

Also truncate title text if it's too long for the box.

Add alt-d: delete a word, alt-f: move forward a word, alt-b: move back a word

Bottom line of the text entry box isn't used.

Has anyone considered maximum line length to single-line-input? I have changed the editor.py script a little and still can not get this to work. Am I making this too much of a script resolution I don't know. I was trying to achieve passing a Max_Line_Length to the editor call but I can not get this to work. Kindly, Scott tried to help but his answer is too complicated for me, and I do not want to bother him. Is there a kind person out there who could give me some basic-knowledge/instruction on how to achieve this? I think it would make a nice enhancement to a fabulous piece of coding, it would certainly make this great for me; stopping the user from keeping on pressing characters unnecessarily. Thank you. PJ

Need to switch out the the help text in the title and the popup help when edit mode is false.

Add a flag and a few vim-style keybindings to allow usage as a non-editable pop-up text box.

h,j,k,l
^b and ^f as pg-up pg-down

Resizing the help window leaves artifacts on the underlying curses screen when being resized.

Unicode text can be displayed, but not entered.