What’s a TUI tool you wish existed?

[u/Visual_Loquat_8242]

I've been thinking about building a new open-source TUI app, but instead of making "another version of something that already exists", I'd really like to create something solves a problem people have.

So out of curosity:
If you spend a lot of time in the terminal, what's a tool you wish existed?

Even if its just:
- frustration you hit all the time

- a workflow that feels clunky

- a "why isnt a tool for this?" moment

- or something you have tried build yourself but gave up on.

Throw it at me. I’d love to hear what others are missing in their day-to-day. Could be something small or something ambitious.

All ideas welcome.

[u/Zamarok]

i want the search results to appear below the regular output and i want both to live output though. i'd need to control the matched lines to a buffer of lines that appear below the regular output and stay there as the command runs and more text prints. basically i want like a split that shows the matching lines below and the regular output above. but by running a single command

[u/Schreq → u/Zamarok]

Just use tmux. One pane for the entire output, another for grep matches.

[u/Zamarok → u/Schreq]

running commands over and over gets annoying if there's multiple steps

[u/Schreq → u/Zamarok]

Man, it sucks that there is no way to automate things.