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Building a TUI is easy now

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Re: Building a TUI is easy now

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Post by emilfihlman »

The thing with TUIs is that, using mobile native virtual keyboards, it's apparently quite impossible to make them behave in a sane way in browsers!

I think the only reasonable option seems to be reimplementing one yourself, which is massively stupid.

Re: Building a TUI is easy now

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Post by NetOpWibby »

emilfihlman wrote: post #2

The thing with TUIs is that, using mobile native virtual keyboards, it's apparently quite impossible to make them behave in a sane way in browsers! I think the only reasonable option seems to be reimplementing one yourself, which is massively stupid.

Mobile is not for TUI

Re: Building a TUI is easy now

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Post by bahmboo »

NetOpWibby wrote: post #3
emilfihlman wrote: post #2

The thing with TUIs is that, using mobile native virtual keyboards, it's apparently quite impossible to make them behave in a sane way in browsers! I think the only reasonable option seems to be reimplementing one yourself, which is massively stupid.

Mobile is not for TUI

More specifically it's an interface designed for a physical keyboard. Or even more specifically it's designed for precise and easy human text input.

Re: Building a TUI is easy now

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Post by avaer »

emilfihlman wrote: post #2

The thing with TUIs is that, using mobile native virtual keyboards, it's apparently quite impossible to make them behave in a sane way in browsers! I think the only reasonable option seems to be reimplementing one yourself, which is massively stupid.

If you have a TUI the correct way to support mobile browsers is to 1-shot a React page equivalent. Trying to make the mobile keyboard work for this would be silly.

Re: Building a TUI is easy now

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Post by socalgal2 »

Do we want tuis?

I can’t stand Gemmin-CLI. That tui gets in the way constantly

I’m mixed in jj’s tui. It’s better than no ui tho

Mostly tho I’m curious when I’d want a tui. Most of the time in a terminal I don’t want one

Re: Building a TUI is easy now

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Post by esafak »

If it was so easy Anthropic wouldn't have messed up CC for so long. The author takes for granted the availability of good off-the-shelf TUI libraries for his chosen language.
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