Show HN: Full-featured CLI textarea for React Ink

Category: library

Tags: cli, react-ink, textarea

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 9, Utility: 6)

A full-featured multiline textarea component for Ink that brings rich text editing to CLI applications, supporting undo, syntax highlighting, focus chaining, and grapheme-aware cursor navigation. It's interesting because it fills a gap in terminal UI development by providing a complex, production-ready input widget with extensive customization and testing.

Target audience: backend devs, cli developers, frontend devs

Repository: https://github.com/omranjamal/ink-textarea · TypeScript · MIT

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