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TUIs being constrained to just text means that they are most likely 100% usable with a keyboard. Text editors are a great example: I tried using VSCode with th

TUIs being constrained to just text means that they are most likely 100% usable with a keyboard. Text editors are a great example: I tried using VSCode with the vim extension, but every once in a (short) while some GUI panel "steals" the focus and I had to click somewhere to get back to where I was. Apart from vim, I also use some chat TUI, and tig for browsing git, for the same reason. It's like back in the days, common users of software could get really good and fly through with keyboard shortcuts. Nowadays I'm saddened when I have to watch a cashier CLICK through some shitty GUI at snail's speed.

zimpenfish 3y ago
> TUIs being constrained to just text means that they are most likely 100% usable with a keyboard. Anecdata: a long time ago, I worked for people trying to sell a (physical) ad-system to Titan and they made a whizzy web UI for booking adverts on their system. Problem was that Titan already had a TTY booking system and their ad bookers could whip through multiple bookings on that using the keyboard in less time than the whizzy web UI took to even load the first page...