Comment by opan

Besides the TUI program itself, you also have your terminal emulator (unless in a TTY) and possibly a multiplexer like tmux. I use irssi inside tmux from my phone a lot and you can get pretty precise control with keyboard shortcuts that make up for some of the flaws of a touchscreen. Like instead of mashing or holding the arrows to go back and fix a typo, I'll use the readline binds and hit esc and b a bunch of times to close most of the distance, then switch to arrows at the end if needed. The tmux copy mode is also pretty friendly in the same way, you can vary gradually adjust your selection start/end without having to hold anything down.