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It gives a graphical interactive environment in terminal. Has some premade interfaces like spreadsheet, notepad and few others.
It used to have a site where you could just connect via ssh and see interact with it in all its glory.
Shameless plug: I built my own MUA with ~300 lines of shell glue and the fantastic mblaze for mail handling and fzf for navigating, displaying and doing custom actions. Thanks to fzf I can declare shortcuts that will do whatever I need to do with the given email (reply, filter with the same subject, open attachments, whatever it is I need) Don't look too closely at the specific code, it is all custom to my own use an…
I personally love TUI software, you don't have to worry about GUI toolkits, mouse focused interaction, you can run them remotely over SSH, they're often composable, and composability is much easier, and who doesn't like the hackerman aesthetic? Some things I don't like about modern TUIs is developers getting away from the purpose of them, portability. Often you'll find really beautiful TUIs that require installation…
In stark contrast to most GNU/*nix tools, I really liked MS-DOS's edit.com text editor. Unlike emacs or vim or even nano, it didn't have a bunch of invisible shortcut keys, just a Windows-like drop-down menu system (but rendered in DOS). You could easily browse through the menu hierarchy, but still memorize certain shortcuts that you often use (just like Windows). In later versions you could even use the mouse to sel…
> In stark contrast to most GNU/*nix tools That's ridiculous! The only invisible things in Emacs deserve to be so. For everything else, there is a menu bar which is also visible in terminal `emacs -nw` mode. Just add `(xterm-mouse-mode t)` to ~/.emacs to make sure the mouse works properly. Very pointy, very clicky, and nice pretty menus that tell you the shortcut of each function.
I use vim, mutt, tig, newsboat, jless (if that counts) pretty much daily. Also a TUI Confluence client which I wrote and which I am the only user of as far as I know. Navigating Confluence becomes a breeze.
These certainly aren't forgotten, but I like: * `ranger` file manager: https://ranger.github.io/ * `ncdu` for visualising disk usage: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu * `htop` process monitor: https://htop.dev/ I just find them very intuitive, and information-dense while not being overwhelming.
In stark contrast to most GNU/*nix tools, I really liked MS-DOS's edit.com text editor. Unlike emacs or vim or even nano, it didn't have a bunch of invisible shortcut keys, just a Windows-like drop-down menu system (but rendered in DOS). You could easily browse through the menu hierarchy, but still memorize certain shortcuts that you often use (just like Windows). In later versions you could even use the mouse to sel…
Fun fact: EDIT.COM and HELP.COM are secretly QBASIC.EXE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QBasic#Contents