Re: TUI == ?

Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-25T06:26:16Z

> From: David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:11:25 -0800
>
> I really don't have a strong opinion at all, but I would vote for
> option 2 - the regular cli is also a text user interface, and the tui
> outputs escape codes which don't seem to me like text but do seem to
> me like a terminal-ish thing.

The CLI interface also outputs terminal commands, so this aspect
doesn't really differentiate between the two.

To me, TUI sounds like GUI, but with G(raphics) replaced by T(ext).
While the CLI is also ``a user interface'', it is more common to call
it ``command-line interface'', which we already do.