Agreed. I think we can be more purist still: menu-driven UIs are not really command line either. MH has a truly command-line UI for mail, while the mail progr

Agreed. I think we can be more purist still: menu-driven UIs are not really command line either. MH has a truly command-line UI for mail, while the mail program doesn't. Some years back, I spent a couple of days trying to use ed for some serious text preparation work before I decided this was not the kind of experiment one should do when better tools are available and real work needs to be done. Using nmh (an MH reimplementation) used to be a pleasure, until its clumsy handling of HTML (quite a bit worse than mutt) began to overwhelm the whole user experience.