⚠️ Note that this is the first release of tgt. Please consider to open an issue if you find any bug or if you have any suggestion. ⚠️

A simple TUI for Telegram

tgt is a terminal user interface for Telegram, written in Rust.

From crates.io

cargo install tgt

From source downloading the tdlib

cargo build --release --features download-tdlib

After the installation, you can run tgt with the following command:

tgt --help

From flake.nix

First, create the required TOML configuration files in ~/.tgt/config using these commands:

git clone https://github.com/FedericoBruzzone/tgt ~/tgt
mkdir -p ~/.tgt/config
cp ~/tgt/config/* ~/.tgt/config

After setting up the configuration files, you have two installation options:

1. Run directly with nix run:

nix run github:FedericoBruzzone/tgt

2. Add tgt to your system packages:

Add the following to your flake.nix:

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable"
    tgt.url = "github:FedericoBruzzone/tgt";
    tgt.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
  };

  outputs = { nixpkgs, tgt, ... }: { /* ... */ }
}

Then add it to your environment.systemPackages:

{pkgs, tgt, ...}: {
  environment = {
    systemPackages = [
        (tgt.packages.${pkgs.system}.default)
    ];
  };
}

To use a specific version of the program, override the src attribute:

{pkgs, tgt, ...}: {
  environment = {
    systemPackages = [
      (tgt.packages.${pkgs.system}.default.overrideAttrs (old: {
        src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
          owner = old.src.owner;
          repo = old.src.repo;
          rev = "00000000000000000000000000000000000000";
          sha256 = "sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=";
        };
        cargoHash = "sha256-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=";
      }))
    ];
  };
}

Note that tgt is fully customizable. For more information about the configuration, please look at here.

Default keybindings:

None state:

esc:               to the "None" state
alt+1 | alt+left:  Focus on the chat list
alt+2 | alt+right: Focus on the chat
alt+3 | alt+down:  Focus on the prompt
alt+h | alt+l:     Resize the chat list
alt+j | alt+k:     Resize the prompt
alt+n:             Toggle chat list
q | ctrl+c:        Quit

Chat List

up | down:     Move selection
enter | right: Open the chat
left:          Unselect chat

esc:               Return to the "None" state
alt+1 | alt+left:  Focus on the chat list
alt+2 | alt+right: Focus on the chat
alt+3 | alt+down:  Focus on the prompt

Chat

up | down: Scroll the messages
left:      Unselect message
y:         Copy the message
e:         Edit the message
r:         Reply to the message
d:         Delete the message for everyone
D:         Delete the message for me

esc:               Return to the "None" state
alt+1 | alt+left:  Focus on the chat list
alt+2 | alt+right: Focus on the chat
alt+3 | alt+down:  Focus on the prompt

Prompt

Note that when the prompt is focused, you can NOT use q or ctrl+c to quit the application, you need to press esc to return to the "None" state.

alt+enter:                        Send the message

left | right | up | down:         Move the cursor
ctrl+left | ctrl+b:               Move the cursor to the previous word
ctrl+right | ctrl+f:              Move the cursor to the next word
ctrl+alt+left | ctrl+a | home:    Move the cursor to the beginning of the line (also ctrl+left+b | shift+super+left | shift+super+b)
ctrl+alt+right | ctrl+e | end:    Move the cursor to the end of the line (also ctrl+right+f | shift+super+right | shift+super+f)

shift+left:                       Move the cursor left and select the text
shift+right:                      Move the cursor right and select the text
shift+up:                         Move the cursor up and select the text
shift+down:                       Move the cursor down and select the text
shift+ctrl+left:                  Select the text before the cursor
shift+ctrl+right:                 Select the text after the cursor

ctrl+c:                           Copy the selected text
ctrl+v:                           Paste the copied text

ctrl+w | ctrl+backspace | ctrl+h: Delete the word before the cursor

esc:               Return to the "None" state
alt+1 | alt+left:  Focus on the chat list
alt+2 | alt+right: Focus on the chat
alt+3 | alt+down:  Focus on the prompt

Contributions to this project are welcome! If you have any suggestions, improvements, or bug fixes, feel free to submit a pull request. For more information, do not hesitate to contact us (see the Contact section).

Build instructions

There are three ways to build tgt:

1. Using the download-tdlib feature of tdlib-rs you do not need to set any environment variable. Then you can compile tgt using cargo build --features download-tdlib.
2. By default, tgt assumes that you have the tdlib built and the LOCAL_TDLIB_PATH environment variable set to the path of the tdlib directory. You can set the environment variable with the following command: export LOCAL_TDLIB_PATH="/path/to/tdlib". Then you can compile tgt using cargo build or cargo build --feature default.
3. You can use pkg-config to find the path of the library. In this case see the CONTRIBUTING.md file for more information. Then you can compile tgt using cargo build --features pkg-config.

The CONTRIBUTING.md file contains information for building tgt and the steps to configure the tdlib in your local environment, starting from the compilation to the configuration of the environment variables.

You can find the road map of the project here (in the pinned issues).

You can use just, make or cargo, as build tools. If you want to use cargo, please make sure to read the Justfile or the Makefile to understand the flags used for each command. Here are the available commands:

just COMMAND
make COMMAND

COMMAND:
  all            # Run fmt, clippy and test
  build          # Build the project
  run            # Run the project
  test           # Run the tests
  clippy         # Run clippy
  fmt            # Run rustfmt
  clean          # Clean the project

This repository are licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Please review the license file provided in the repository for more information regarding the terms and conditions of the license.

If you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback, do not hesitate to contact me.

Maintainers:

• FedericoBruzzone
• Andreal2000