I don't know if it "deserves to be known" but I made debase to make git editing easier: https://toaster.llc/debase
That looks great! Also, the site is excellent. I love how the animated examples change as you scroll down the site.
Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
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Re: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
#182I use aerc as my goto email client every day. bandwhich: Terminal bandwidth utilization tool sc-im: A very capable terminal based spreadsheet program. bpytop: Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor broot: New way to see and navigate directory trees daff: provides efficient table comparison and alignment, supporting formats like CSV and SQLite, making it essential for data analysis and synchronization tasks. It's indispen…
I used to use aerc, though mutt is more powerful. Might switch to neomutt.
Sc-im is great, however may be really confusing sometimes.
Re: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
qbasic.exe :D hah. never knew. but that takes me right back haha thx
I can't think about QBasic without thinking about that game with primates throwing bananas across a city at each other. Like a simpler version of Scorched Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game) also Money, and REMLINE
No love for NIBBLES.BAS? I played that way more than Gorillas. And Scorched Earth -- that's a name I haven't heard for a long time.
Re: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
htop is great, but I've migrated to bottom which has a very similar interface with "btm --basic". [1] https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom
interesting. could you share the advantages of "btm --basic" over htop?
Not the OP, but the graphs over time are a nice touch.
Re: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
#185Linux's `make menuconfig` [0] and GDB's TUI interface [1] are the first ones that come to mind. Both are very powerful once you get to know them a bit, and are still valuable tools today. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menuconfig [1] https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/TUI.h...
I find menuconfig to be a not-very-great TUI (too much stuff per page for my taste), but the GDB tui is really nice/functional (tho also idiosyncratic).
I recall `make nconfig` being much friendlier.
Re: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's unix command names for fast food! chown MCNUGS, please!
I can't remember all of them, but the abbreviations sort of became a running joke amongst me and my coworkers; specifically we would use them for nicknames of managers we didn't like. None of them were vulgar or anything, but for example we had taken to calling one of the managers "McNugs" because he stole a bunch of chicken nuggets (like literally a whole box, not just one or two from the line), tried to claim that…
Is the inventory tracked so closely that you can detect a missing box of McNugs?
Re: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
#187Not particularly high-level, but representing common TUI designs and usage patterns on Unix: Slrn, Mutt, Ncdu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slrn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_(email_client) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncdu
For those who are familiar with using the *nix du command, ncdu is like a nice step up. Finding what is using your disk space naturally requires repeatedly descending into directories and checking what is using up most space. So having TUI for it makes a lot of sense. Thanks for listing it.
du -h|sort -h goes a really long way
Re: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
#188DESQview for DOS was an amazing way to add some multi-tasking capabilities into an otherwise limited environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview
Re: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
#189If you are in the US, pick a slow day and chat to the customer service people at Lowes or Costco. Both stores use TUI interfaces for their instore service apps, and boy are they fast with them. They reserve GUI things for the self service point of sale systems and keep the TUI for cases where speed matters. I suspect that these apps might once have been mainframe hosted (in other words, screen-oriented, with the PC t…
> and boy are they fast with them
My girlfriend works in a bank and she does virtually everything in a TUI.
She hates it, but I've seen her using it and she's blazing fast and I can't, as a frontend developer, imagine how a full blown application would be better.
Re: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
interesting. could you share the advantages of "btm --basic" over htop?
Not the OP, but the graphs over time are a nice touch.
btm --basic doesn't show graphs. but that is the point because when i saw the graphs i felt that while that is nice, that's not a replacement for top/htop. it's something different. btm --basic however looks very similar to htop. so similar that i didn't see the benefit.