A poor man and/or hipster's TUI screenwriting software.
Ever since the wide adoption of portable PCs screenwriters have been wondering how they can set themselves even more apart from everyone else than just doing their work in a local coffee shop on an expensive MacBook for everyone to see instead of in an office on a reasonably priced computer like normal people because nobody cares.
Now maximum apartness can be achieved: Write your screenplay in a terminal just like in the olden days! Don't click around with your mouse. What's a mouse wheel anyway? Feel the comfort of a fully ASCII-rendered user interface!
After all, screenplays are just text, why shouldn't screenwriting software be?
| OS: | Linux or MacOS |
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| Software: | Python 3.3 or higher, ncurses |
Shane does not need to be installed. Still, if you like to then run
python setup.py install on the command line from Shane's root directory.
Either run python run.py from Shane's root directory or (if installed)
simply run shane from wherever. To start Shane with opening a screenplay
add the path as a parameter, e.g.
python run.py /home/hotshot/screenplays/romcom.fountain or
shane /home/hotshot/screenplays/romcom.fountain.
Visit the documentation.
While Shane is a fully usable screenwriting software it's very basic and far behind the competition (even competing freeware). Of course a lot of its simplicity is by design but some features are still nice to have and will probably come.
- Save As
- Autocomplete path names
- Set meta data (title page stuff)
- Meta data
- Optimize
get_line_count() - Store new names automatically in name database
- Select
- Set selection
- Delete selection
- Copy selection
- Clipboard
- Copy to internal clipboard
- Paste from internal clipboard
- Copy to system clipboard
- Paste from system clipboard
- Let edit methods error check