TUI Challenge: Day 1

Don Harper

June 8, 2025

tap, tap Is this thing on? When was the last time I published anything? Oh, back on January 15, 2024. Oops.

Well, I had to clean up a few things to get this back working with updates to hugo, the static blogging engine I use for the site.

So, what prompted me to fire this up again, and actually make it work (unlike the last few times I was going to start this)?
Well, I listen to a bunch of podcasts from Jupiter Broadcasting, including one called Linux Unplugged, and they are running a 7 day TUI Challenge. Now, since I normally read my email and RSS feeds in a TUI app, and I use VIM as my editor and IDE, I figured it would be fairly easy for me to take part.

The two big things I use a GUI for are web browsing with qutebrowser and watch youtube vids with MPV, I should be able to adapt.

Anyway, Day 1 challenge is to write document using a TUI editor of at least 200 words. There are bonus points for using scripts to help things out, and I guess the script I use to start editing a file should work:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#===============================================================================
#
#          FILE: dopost
# 
#         USAGE: ./dopost
# 
#   DESCRIPTION: make a new post for hugo
# 
#       OPTIONS: ---
#  REQUIREMENTS: ---
#          BUGS: ---
#         NOTES: ---
#        AUTHOR: Don Harper (), duck@duckland.org
#  ORGANIZATION: 
#       CREATED: 02/02/2019 08:35:34 PM CDT
#      REVISION: Based off of genpost.sh
#===============================================================================

set -o nounset                              # Treat unset variables as an error
trap onexit 1 2 3 15 ERR EXIT
#--- onexit() -----------------------------------------------------
#  @param $1 integer  (optional) Exit status.  If not set, use `$?'

function onexit() {
	local exit_status=${1:-$?}
	if [ "${exit_status}" == 0 ]
	then
		exit
	fi
	notify-send "Exiting ${myname} with $exit_status"
	cd
	exit "${exit_status}"
}

myname="$(basename ${0} .sh)"
Title="untitled"
Category="none"
TAGS="tagless"

while getopts "t:T:c:h" OPTIONS
do
	case ${OPTIONS} in
		t) Title="$OPTARG" ;;
		c) Category="$OPTARG" ;;
		T) TAGS="$OPTARG" ;;
		*)
			echo "$0 -t '<title>' -c '<category>' [-T '<tags[,tags2]>']"
			exit 1
			;;
	esac
done
shift

if [ "${Title}" == "untitled" ]
then
	echo "Missing title"
	echo "$0 -t '<title>' -c '<category>' [-T '<tags[ tags2]>']"
	exit 1
fi
if [ "${Category}" == "none" ]
then
	echo "Missing category"
	echo "$0 -t '<title>' -c '<category>' [-T '<tags[ tags2]>']"
	exit 1
fi
if $(echo "${TAGS}" | grep -q ' ')
then
	TAGS=$(echo "${TAGS}" | sed 's/ /", "/g')
fi

BASE="${HOME}/src/WWW/sites/duckland.org"
DATE=$(date +%F)
YEAR=$(echo $DATE | awk -F- '{print $1}')
MON=$(echo $DATE | awk -F- '{print $2}')
Name=$(echo ${Title} | sed -e 's/^ //' -e 's/,//' -e 's/ ://' -e 's/ /-/g' -e 's/\?//' -e 's/\!//' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' )
cd ${BASE} 
git co draft
printf "title - %s\nname - %s\n" "$Title" "$Name"
OUTPUTDIR="${BASE}/content/posts/${YEAR}/${MON}/"
mkdir -p ${OUTPUTDIR}
OUTPUT="${OUTPUTDIR}/${Name}.md"
echo "---" > ${OUTPUT}
echo "date: \"${DATE}T04:00:00-07:00\"" >> ${OUTPUT}
echo "title: \"${Title}\"" >> ${OUTPUT}
echo "tags: [\"${TAGS}\"]" >> ${OUTPUT}
echo "categories: [\"${Category}\"]" >> ${OUTPUT}
echo "#image: \"\"" >> ${OUTPUT}
echo "#series: [\"\"]" >> ${OUTPUT}
echo "summary: \"\"" >> ${OUTPUT}
echo "Victor_Hugo: \"true\"" >> ${OUTPUT}
echo "Focus_Keyword: \"\"" >> ${OUTPUT}
echo "---" >> ${OUTPUT}
echo "" >> ${OUTPUT}
#cd ~/src/www.duckland.org
#tmux neww -n "New Post" -t 30 "cd ~/src/www.duckland.org ; hugo serve -D -F"
#tmux split-window -h "${EDITOR} ${OUTPUT}"
#tmux select-layout main-vertical

#. ~/.myapps
#$TERMPROG -e tmuxp load duckland
tmuxinator start duckland

As the TUI Challenge has a scoring system, I am claiming 10 points for editing a file under vim, and an additional 10 points as my script does a bit of formating, for a total of 20 points.

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