Comment by nec4b
6 months ago
There are no escape sequences when running TUI apps in DOS. They have direct memory access to the video card.
>> This is just delusional.
That is a bit uncalled for.
6 months ago
There are no escape sequences when running TUI apps in DOS. They have direct memory access to the video card.
>> This is just delusional.
That is a bit uncalled for.
Did you just not read the rest of my post?
We are not talking about DOS, we are talking about "modern" TUIs you would use on a modern Linux/Windows/MacOS system.
I even made that explicit in my first paragraph.
Windows NT has a native console API that every non-Cygwin program used until a few years ago, when Microsoft finally implemented terminal emulation. See, for example, https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/e7c765fe5997daa845222351e114.... It’s just that there is little interest in TUIs from Windows users.
I don't think others are talking about what you are angry about. I said that with the first reply and I'm not the only one saying it. Nobody is trying to take Zed or Neovim away from you.
By the way one of the most frequent modern TUI apps that I use is Midnight Commander. It's a very nice app, which I use mostly when I SSH into a remote machine to manage it. Is there a 2D accelerated GUI that can help me do the same?
>Is there a 2D accelerated GUI that can help me do the same?
Of course. Just mount it through ssh and use whatever file manager you already have. It is very silly to switch tools just because the machine is somewhere else.
Switching tools just to accommodate the machine being remote is just bizarre to me. You even said that you used mc mostly for remote machines. What is the point of that? Now you have to use at least two tools which do the exact same thing, except you only use one when the system is remote? Does that not seem like a total waste? It would be one thing if you said that mc is what you always used, but that is not the case, you actively switch tools just to accommodate the machine being remote. Why? Do you think that is reasonable at all, when something as simple as just mounting over ssh exists?
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