Okay, so today I wanted to mess around with this thing called “grich”. Honestly, I hadn’t heard of it before, but it sounded interesting, all about rich text editing in the console. Sounded kinda cool, right?
First off, I had to get it installed. I’m on a Mac, so I fired up my terminal. Brew to the rescue! I just typed in brew install grich and hit enter. Boom, it started doing its thing, downloading and installing all the necessary bits and bobs. It took a couple of minutes, nothing too crazy. Then, I was ready to install grich via pip, so I entered pip3 install grich. Wait a moment, and here we are.
Once it was installed, I was itching to try it out. So I just typed grich into my terminal to see what would happen. And, huh, it showed me a bunch of options and examples. Seemed pretty straightforward. It can do a lot, such as rendering tables, showing text in markdown, and showing data in JSON format.
Then I thought, let’s try something simple. I had a markdown file that I used as an example. I used the command grich examples/* and wow, the content in the markdown file is rendered in the terminal. It is so cool!
I just played around with some commands to see the rich text in the terminal. For example, I ran python3 examples/*, and the result is so amazing!
I gotta say, this grich thing is pretty neat. It’s not something I’d use every day, but it’s definitely a cool tool to have in your back pocket. If you ever need to display rich text in the console, this is the way to go. I’ll probably keep messing around with it and see what other cool stuff it can do.
