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Why does his teletype comments miss TUI tools like tmux, vim, midnight commander? I feel if he acknowledge these tools some of his arguments fall flat. There
by oneweekwonder 8y ago
Why does his teletype comments miss TUI tools like tmux, vim, midnight commander?
I feel if he acknowledge these tools some of his arguments fall flat.
There a reason why there is no real alternative to TUI's. Because all of them suck. Even Microsoft back-peddled with powershell so that Windows have better tui support.
I want to use TUI tools like ssh and tmux. For the power it gives me, and the low usage of bandwidth, that gives a better response time then most GUI tools.
"UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity." ~ Dennis Ritchie
- xfer 8y agogui doesn't necessarily mean you have to update bitmaps over network to be responsive. It could be done in a protocol(just like ssh is) for low bandwidth/latency usage.
- oneweekwonder 8y agoTrue; any example of such tools in practice? Only quick one I can think of as I wrote the question is winbox. But then again winbox is just a wrapper for the cli.
- qznc 8y agoThat was X11. A minimal but extensible protocol which survived many decades and successfully adapted through generations of hardware. Over time people created abstractions over it (Gtk,Qt,etc) such that X11 was limited to update bitmaps over network to be responsive. Now X11 will be replaced by Wayland on Linux.