nio – ncurses input/output
nio is a pager with a line-based input at the bottom.
nio is intended as an interface to the irc client ii.
usage:
nio OUTPUTFILE INPUTFILE [-h HIGHLIGHT] [-i INTERVAL] [-p PROMPT] [-w PID]
dependencies:
- python-2.7 <http://www.python.org/getit/releases/2.7/>
- python-opster <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/opster/>
- python-urwid <http://excess.org/urwid/>
known bugs:
- python-urwid 0.x cannot into UTF-8 input (python-urwid 1.x can)
- nio makes lots of stat() calls, should use inotify
- if the monitored file shrinks, nio crashes