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> TUIs are superior in many ways to GUIs and have a place in the ecosystem.

There's another reason you don't mention.

Consistent UI.

TUI apps can (and in the Windows world usually do) use the same keyboard controls, derived from IBM CUA, as their GUI equivalents do.

This is why I use Tilde in the Linux shell: the same commands work in it as in Pluma or Leafpad or Mousepad or whatever: Ctrl+O opens a file, Ctrl-X/C/V to cut/copy/paste, Ctrl+N for new, etc.



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