To setup a checkout you need Python 3.6 and virtualenv. Then you may bootstrap a development setup by issuing:

python3 bootstrap.py

See also:

• cui-source: Displays filesystem contents, files and enables syntax highlighting.
• cui-emacs: Provides a framework for interacting with emacs, through calling lisp code via emacsclient and parsing lisp data structures.
• cui-pydevd: Frontend for the Pydev Debugger.