The Ultimate Python Terminal Ecosystem

A curated, logically ordered note of modern, Python-native terminal utilities that can be installed directly via uv.

textual-code

The best modern TUI code editor. Built on Textual, offering VS Code/Sublime-like features (file explorer, multi-cursor, mouse support) out of the box. (Note: requires Python 3.12+)
```
uv tool install textual-code --python 3.13
```
ranger-fm

The classic, highly customizable terminal file manager with Vim bindings and a multi-column preview layout.
```
uv tool install ranger-fm
```
visidata

The “Excel of the terminal.” Incredibly fast tabular data explorer for CSV, Excel, SQLite, IPC and JSON files.
```
uv tool install --with pyarrow visidata
```