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> I’ve been slowly coming to accept over the last year that really just do not like the experience of using terminal-based apps. I rather like using my touchpad to click around, and I vastly prefer the feel of smooth-scrolling over line-by-line hopping.
I agree.
I love the scriptability of pure CLI apps, as in prompt, text input, text output, Unix-pipeable classic stuff. TUI, on the other hand, I don’t get along with.
It seems that in the plan9 world, they had a similar idea of simplicity (simple to program) combined with an actual GUI, with apps like Sam and ACME.
But I found in Emacs the perfect world for me. I can have proportional fonts (though not smooth scrolling), click around etc.
Since I had to switch to working over SSH a while back, I’m now stuck in the hellscape of TUI. But it’s great since I can still use all my wonderful Emacs setup. No proportional fonts any more 💔 but everything else. Even clicking works, with xterm-mouse-mode.
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