Lismi

A simple typing frontend for your terminal.

State of the Project

This is in beta stage. The experience is not guaranteed to be stable.

Features

• layout emulation
• color highlighting
• text alignment and text wrapping

Installation

Warning

• Windows users need to install windows-curses module. It should get installed automatically, but if it does not, please do this:
  • pip install windows-curses
• It may not work with Python 3.12 on Windows. Use 3.11. Please note that this can be outdated.

First Method

git clone --depth 1 --branch main <REPO URL> lismi
pip install ./lismi

Second Method

pip install git+<REPO URL>@main

Tips

1. You can delete whole words with C-w (CTRL + w) or C-backspace key combination. C-w is not as universal as C-backspace, though.
2. You can reset a test using C-e key combination.
3. You can skip a test using the Esc key.
4. You can do -p -W file.txt or -pW file.txt to select a text file from the words/ folder of this project. E.g., you can do -pW ten-thousand.txt to select the 10K word file from here. Your current working directory (CWD) does not matter.
5. When the report card is shown, you can use backspace or C-w or C-backspace to go back and correct yourself somewhere in the test you just completed. Do note that that the time you spent reading the report card is accounted for calculating WPM.
6. You can use this script to swap your keyboard layout per test. Similar to the Layoutfluid feature of MonkeyType.
7. You can do lismi --help for more tips. Thank you for using Lismi!

Command-Line Arguments

usage: lismi [-h] [-w WORD_COUNT] [-W WORD_FILE] [-Q QUOTE] [-p] [-s] [-S]
                   [-t TARGET_LAYOUT] [-e EMULATE_LAYOUT] [-m MAX_SPACES] [-q]
                   [-b] [-E] [-V]

Lismi - A simple typing frontend for terminals.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -w WORD_COUNT, --word-count WORD_COUNT
                        Number of words per test. Default: 20.
  -W WORD_FILE, --word-file WORD_FILE
                        Word file. Defaults (currently) to '/home/myxi/.asdf/ins
                        talls/python/3.12.2/lib/python3.12/site-
                        packages/lismi/words/two-hundred.txt'.
  -Q QUOTE, --quote QUOTE
                        Quote to use. Disables word file.
  -p, --prepend-script-directory
                        Look for the word file in the script directory's
                        dedicated folder.
  -s, --skip-words      Space skips words.
  -S, --one-shot        Exit after first test.
  -t TARGET_LAYOUT, --target-layout TARGET_LAYOUT
                        Target layout. Default: 'qwerty'. Available: colemak,
                        qwerty.
  -e EMULATE_LAYOUT, --emulate-layout EMULATE_LAYOUT
                        Emulate layout.Default: 'qwerty'. Available: colemak,
                        qwerty.
  -m MAX_SPACES, --max-spaces MAX_SPACES
                        Max spaces per line. Default: 10. Minimum: 2.
  -q, --no-quick-end    Disable quickly ending test by ignoring last space.
  -b, --no-backspace    Disable deleting words.
  -E, --no-esc          Make esc key only work on report window.
  -V, --version         Show program version.