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TUI text editors, debuggers, pagers, music players are still very much used, if maybe not very actively developed. I guess even style escape codes would break l
by jgtrosh 8y ago
TUI text editors, debuggers, pagers, music players are still very much used, if maybe not very actively developed. I guess even style escape codes would break line printers? This would discard a vast amount of tools I personally use daily. I would be happy to receive UNIX-philosophy arguments, but until such tools that bring the same functionality appear, TUIs are often the best of all worlds for me.
- toast0 8y agoMost of the debuggers I use would be fine with a line printer, at the level of sophistication I'm capable of using them. A pager would be ok, as long as you're using more and not less. I use plenty of interactive tools in a terminal, but almost all of them are screen oriented, very few are line oriented. I would say the distinguishing thing to make something usable on a printer / a real teletype is that the paper only moves in one direction.