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I've also never heard this term. Back when text interfaces for mail were the default, but they started getting "fancy" like elm, pine and mutt in the 90s, they
by ralferoo 2y ago
I've also never heard this term. Back when text interfaces for mail were the default, but they started getting "fancy" like elm, pine and mutt in the 90s, they were always called curses or ncurses interfaces. When GUIs became a thing, the older things became called text-mode, but I've never encountered TUI before.
The only TUI that I'd heard of is the travel company.
- opan 2y agocurses and ncurses are specific libraries used while TUI is a more universal term.
- superkuh 2y agoBut what does it actually stand for? Terminal user interface? Text user interface? I'm not complaining or saying it shouldn't be used, I'd just never seen it before and my initial searches for TUI were all overloaded with other things.
- scbrg 2y ago> But what does it actually stand for? Terminal user interface? Text user interface? Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface The Wikipedia page is from 2004, so it's been around a while.