2025-12-30 22:42:39
thinking of writing a cli tool with an interactive prompt and/or tui, and I'm questioning the need for non-tui interactive mode, it feels like an artifact of the teletype era.
weak justification: tui removes information from screen, which you might need. this is not a big deal in window systems, but console ttys are still useful.
maybe instead of a full tui it can just tui the 5-6 lines it adds. this is not supposed to be doable in terminfo/curses, but everyone is ansi-termin…