Surely TUIs for editing text (nano, vi, emacs) are better than using something like `ed`. There's something to be said for having two dimensions to navigate in!
Not the parent but I took his comment to be a response to a comment above that mentioned DOS apps that had menus, used standard function keys, had "form controls" (e.g. buttons, lists), etc.
I think of a TUI not so much as a 2D text interface but more like text interfaces that work with a mouse, use similar constructs as GUI's like menus and form controls and standardize on conventions for displaying information in a uniform way across different applications.
Like I said, not the parent, so I may be wrong but there's my two cents...
Vim still qualifies as a TUI under that definition (since it supports using the mouse to select text, change or resize windows, etc), though I think Vi would not.
Agreed, although I'm glad Bram, et el. have not tried to add a text based "toolbar" or menu to Vim like in GVim.
But yeah, to this day after using Vim for years and years I still get a little surprised when I absent mindedly click on a Vim session in a terminal window and it moves the focus to whatever buffer I happened to click on.
I'm so used to ^W-^W that I forget this is even possible. Same with moving the cursor, selecting text, scrolling up and down, etc...
There is le editor. F10 brings up a menu. Shortcuts all around. It's nearly like an old turbo c/ pascal app, but it's available with a simple apt install le.
