ink-text-input-improved

Text input component for Ink with enhanced keyboard shortcuts.

This is a fork of ink-text-input with additional keyboard shortcuts for better editing experience.

Added Features

• Improved keyboard shortcuts:
  • ⌘ + delete: Delete from cursor to beginning of line
  • Left Alt+Backspace / ⎇ + delete: Delete word
  • Ctrl/⎇+Left/Right: Move cursor by word
  • ⌘/Alt + Left/Right: Move cursor to beginning/end of line
  • Plus all original shortcuts

Platform Specific Support

• Windows/Linux keyboard shortcuts
• macOS keyboard shortcuts (Command/Option key support)

Install

npm install ink-text-input-improved

Usage

import React, {useState} from 'react';
import {render, Box, Text} from 'ink';
import TextInput from 'ink-text-input-improved';

const SearchQuery = () => {
	const [query, setQuery] = useState('');

	return (
		<Box>
			<Box marginRight={1}>
				<Text>Enter your query:</Text>
			</Box>

			<TextInput value={query} onChange={setQuery} />
		</Box>
	);
};

render(<SearchQuery />);

Props

value

Type: string

Value to display in a text input.

placeholder

Type: string

Text to display when value is empty.

focus

Type: boolean
Default: true

Listen to user's input. Useful in case there are multiple input components at the same time and input must be "routed" to a specific component.

showCursor

Type: boolean
Default: true

Whether to show cursor and allow navigation inside text input with arrow keys.

highlightPastedText

Type: boolean
Default: false

Highlight pasted text.

mask

Type: string

Replace all chars and mask the value. Useful for password inputs.

<TextInput value="Hello" mask="*" />
//=> "*****"

onChange

Type: Function

Function to call when value updates.

onSubmit

Type: Function

Function to call when Enter is pressed, where first argument is a value of the input.

Uncontrolled usage

This component also exposes an uncontrolled version, which handles value changes for you. To receive the final input value, use onSubmit prop. Initial value can be specified via initialValue prop, which is supported only in UncontrolledTextInput component.

import React from 'react';
import {render, Box, Text} from 'ink';
import {UncontrolledTextInput} from 'ink-text-input-improved';

const SearchQuery = () => {
	const handleSubmit = query => {
		// Do something with query
	};

	return (
		<Box>
			<Box marginRight={1}>
				<Text>Enter your query:</Text>
			</Box>

			<UncontrolledTextInput onSubmit={handleSubmit} />
		</Box>
	);
};

render(<SearchQuery />);