Comment by socalgal2

5 days ago

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

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2muchtime  5 days ago

I do.

I want my interfacing with computers to be mouseless and TUIs offer that. I don’t think I’ve run into a GUI, no matter how many hotkeys it has and I know, where I didn’t have to reach for the mouse.

CLI only also requires remembering commands, some of which I use very infrequently, thus need to look up every time I use them.

I think TUIs hold a very nice spot between GUIs and CLI.

  • verdverm  5 days ago

    VS Code with the Vim extension is largely mouseless

    I use the TUI from a terminal tab in VS Code, my agent works with that and the custom extension with a webapp based interface, seamlessly and concurrently

    GUIs, TUIs, and PR/kanban all make sense in different situations. We'll all use at least two of them on regular basis for coding agents.

    TUIs make way less sense for your average user

    • dualogy  5 days ago

      > VS Code with the Vim extension is largely mouseless

      It's also easily mouseless without any Vim or like extension. I never mouse in it, having given intuitive-to-me keychords to all the various moves I need to make beyond the standard stuff.

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liveoneggs  5 days ago

I just want a stream, not a TUI. If you can't | it it's not real

  • hnlmorg  5 days ago

    There’s no reason why you can’t have both.

    Well behaved CLI tools have for years already been changing their UX depending on whether STDOUT is a TTY or a pipe.