Recently I've been making Transient-based porcelains for some venerable Emacs packages. - For calc, there is Casual https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual https

Recently I've been making Transient-based porcelains for some venerable Emacs packages. - For calc, there is Casual https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual - For isearch, there is cc-isearch-menu https://github.com/kickingvegas/cc-isearch-menu https://github.com/kickingvegas/cc-isearch-menu - For Dired, there is Casual Dired https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual-dired https://github.com/kickingvegas/casual-dired All can be run in a TTY to get that TUI experience.