I actually really enjoy text UIs. I would like something similar to Vimperator or Pentadactyl to label keywords with numbers, perhaps in parentheses or square b

I actually really enjoy text UIs. I would like something similar to Vimperator or Pentadactyl to label keywords with numbers, perhaps in parentheses or square brackets so I can refer to things without typing them in. This is useful for identifiers which might be uuids, rather than type them in or use the mouse or tmux text selection to select and copy and paste, you can just refer to the numeric identifier. The output for kubectl is text based output table, not a TUI. So it's a really important text format for user interaction. I have had the idea of a text stream format that configures a terminal UI, so it could be used a bit like fzf and selections can be made with arrow keys. In this design, your app would be decoupled from the UI framework (ncurses or Textual, your app is just printf), and you just output a special text format that configures collections which are mapped to portlets in the screen. You can use code similar to what tmux and screen does to arrange the portlets to different parts of the screen.