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I don't see this being a default keybinding for inquire but allowing you to do that is really important to me.

I have created #70 to track how I plan to make that possible in a future release.

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I see your point and agree this would be a nice feature to add.

More specifically, I have wanted to develop an API that allows the developer to completely configure the key mapping of the prompt. A simple key->command map, and then we could create a vast extension of commands such as "display help, hide help, toggle help". Rest assured it is on the radar!

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Nice! Having this idea generalized into mechanism you've described would be very nice.

This is off topic, but I wonder if you'd be able to use widgets from crate::tui::widgets? Ofc these would be non-interactive/not animated, but still would be nice to have a collection of widgets to use.

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I've been thinking about this but I can't quite see what kind of extensions could be built by widgets that would be better in this widget model than just being integrated into our repo.

I see how the underlying rendering logic could be useful to a wider range of apps but I honestly can't think of a way to expose it at this moment, because it is so tightly integrated and with some (a lot) of duplicated code.

What kind of widgets would you see yourself using? Now that I think of, once we have the keybinding->command architecture, I could see our custom configurations for our existing prompts being exposed as "widgets". Is that what you were thinking of?

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Good question, tbh all I can imagine as useful is having box with border, perhaps also a table, so for me personally it may not be all that useful to provide all the widget types, but I was just trying to be forward thinking and think about the developer who may (somehow) find it useful to have barchart as part of inquirer-like workflow, so all in all, having widgets ported from tui crate may very well be a useless feature like you've - I think - implied

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