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> There are text mode action-oriented apps: ncurses/turbo vision/etc. based applications like Commander, or the old Borland IDE, or Tilde, or the old FoxPro, or

by ori_b 6y ago

> There are text mode action-oriented apps: ncurses/turbo vision/etc. based applications like Commander, or the old Borland IDE, or Tilde, or the old FoxPro, or plenty others.* These are graphical programs, just with a substandard drawing api.

alexvoda 6y ago
You did not get the point the parent (me) and grandparents made. They are not graphical programs. They are generally recognised as TUI programs. If these are graphical then so is Vi or the fancy powerline prompt. Our point was that you can also have command lines in graphical applications and WIMP in text mode applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing)
- alexvoda 6y ago
  Actually even this two axis classification is imprecise. CLI programs like the coreutils are actually sort of missing a user interface. They are just programs that receive arguments on launch. How should we classify the following? - Programs like coreutils that receive arguments and return a result - Programs that start a menu or wizard in text mode - Programs that start a interactive command line like various database CLI interfaces, shells - Programs like Vim that have a TUI and are command line driven. - Programs like Tilda that have a WIMP TUI I think the last four have graphical equivalents (eg. Windows installers, Jupyter, VSCode, Notepad++ respectively) and what is missing is a graphical interface for passing arguments to programs.
- ori_b 6y ago
  Of course vi is graphical. Vi is literally short for 'visual': it was created as a graphical extension of ex. The mark of a command line is a stream of commands and responses, not whether it does ascii art to emulate graphics.
  - alexvoda 6y ago
    I understand your point and your definition of GUI is much more inclusive. I however disagree with your definition and I consider it is not that commonly accepted. I do agree with your definition of a command line interface as a stream of commands and responses.

by ori_b 6y ago

alexvoda 6y ago

You did not get the point the parent (me) and grandparents made. They are not graphical programs. They are generally recognised as TUI programs. If these are graphical then so is Vi or the fancy powerline prompt. Our point was that you can also have command lines in graphical applications and WIMP in text mode applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIMP_(computing)

alexvoda 6y ago
Actually even this two axis classification is imprecise. CLI programs like the coreutils are actually sort of missing a user interface. They are just programs that receive arguments on launch. How should we classify the following? - Programs like coreutils that receive arguments and return a result - Programs that start a menu or wizard in text mode - Programs that start a interactive command line like various database CLI interfaces, shells - Programs like Vim that have a TUI and are command line driven. - Programs like Tilda that have a WIMP TUI I think the last four have graphical equivalents (eg. Windows installers, Jupyter, VSCode, Notepad++ respectively) and what is missing is a graphical interface for passing arguments to programs.
ori_b 6y ago
Of course vi is graphical. Vi is literally short for 'visual': it was created as a graphical extension of ex. The mark of a command line is a stream of commands and responses, not whether it does ascii art to emulate graphics.
- alexvoda 6y ago
  I understand your point and your definition of GUI is much more inclusive. I however disagree with your definition and I consider it is not that commonly accepted. I do agree with your definition of a command line interface as a stream of commands and responses.