cronscope

cronscope is a curses-based TUI for managing your cron jobs.
It provides a scrollable job list, keybindings for add/edit/delete, and a status bar — all from inside your terminal.

The goal: a lightweight, GPLv3-licensed tool that makes crontab -e less painful.

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Features (planned / MVP)

• Load and display current user’s crontab (crontab -l).
• Scrollable list of jobs with keybindings:
  • a add, e edit, d delete, :w save, q quit.
• Status bar with hints.
• Syntax check before saving.
• Clean ncursesw UI, wide-character + Unicode support.

Future:

• System-wide /etc/cron.* support.
• Calendar preview of jobs.
• Export/import jobs (JSON/YAML).
• Optional notcurses backend.

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Build

Dependencies:

• GCC (or Clang)
• CMake ≥ 3.16
• pkg-config
• ncursesw development headers
• git

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