diff --git a/src/ted_prompt.c b/src/ted_prompt.c
deleted file mode 100644
index f45d34c..0000000
--- a/src/ted_prompt.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-#include <ted_prompt.h>
-#include <ted_utils.h>
-#include <ted_grapheme.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#include <ncurses.h>
-#include <ctype.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-
-
-char menu_message[MSG_SZ] = "";
-
-// FIXME: this is a very bad practise
-void display_menu(const char *message, const char *shadow);
-
-size_t prompt_hints(char message[MSG_SZ], char *base_hint, Hints *hints) {
-    char *afterlabel = &message[strlen(message)];
-    size_t afterlabel_sz = MSG_SZ - (size_t)(afterlabel - message);
-    size_t i = 0;
-    
-    while (1) {
-        const char *hint = NULL;
-        
-        if (i == 0) {
-            hint = base_hint;
-        } else {
-            char *tmp = printdup("%s", afterlabel);
-            char *fstword = next_word(&tmp);
-            if (&fstword[strlen(fstword)] != tmp)
-                for (size_t hi = 0; hints[hi].command; hi++)
-                    if (0 == strcmp(fstword, hints[hi].command))
-                        hint = hints[hi].hint;
-            free(fstword);
-        }
-        
-        display_menu(message, hint);
-        
-        refresh();
-        
-        int c = getch();
-        switch (c) {
-            case KEY_BACKSPACE:
-            case ctrl('h'):
-                if (i > 0) {
-                    afterlabel[--i] = '\0';
-                    break;
-                }
-                // FALLTHROUGH to ^C if length is zero
-            case ctrl('c'):
-                message[0] = '\0';
-                return 0;
-            case '\n':
-                afterlabel[i] = '\0';
-                memmove(message, afterlabel, i + 1);
-                return i;
-            default:
-                if (c != ERR && isprint(c))
-                    afterlabel[i++] = c;
-        }
-    }
-    
-    return afterlabel_sz;
-}
-
-void message(const char *msg) {
-    strncpy(menu_message, msg, MSG_SZ);
-    menu_message[MSG_SZ - 1] = '\0';
-}
-
-
diff --git a/src/ted_prompt.h b/src/ted_prompt.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 963b152..0000000
--- a/src/ted_prompt.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-#ifndef TED_PROMPT_H
-#define TED_PROMPT_H
-
-#include <stddef.h>
-#include <ted_config.h>
-
-
-typedef struct {
-    const char *command;
-    const char *hint;
-} Hints;
-
-size_t prompt_hints(char message[MSG_SZ], char *base_hint, Hints *hints);
-void message(const char *msg);
-
-extern char menu_message[MSG_SZ];
-
-#endif