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0 pointsgaldosdi1y ago0 comments

What do you mean precisely by "character addressing UI"? I can infer approximately what you mean, but I had never heard that phrase before and could not Google it, so was wondering how precisely you define that as presumably slightly distinct from other more common terms for text mode applications.

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5-1y ago

thanks! i meant 'cursor-addressing', to avoid the ambiguous term 'tui', which usually (and per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface) means cursor-addressing, but nominally also includes actual text-based user interfaces, as seen in e.g. the traditional unix utilities.

Shared4041y ago

I've always seen CLI used for unix style utilities and TUI used for cursor-addressing/ncurses style interfaces fwiw.

TickleSteve1y ago

You still didnt define what "cursor addressing" means. Its not a common term to use for these UIs and doesnt seem to get to the crux of what separates a typical GUI from these.

For me, the crucial difference is that they're usable over ssh and tmux, not the type of cursor they have (if any).

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