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		superkuh on Aug 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email But what does it actually stand for? Terminal user interface? Text user interface? I'm not complaining or saying it shouldn't be used, I'd just never seen it before and my initial searches for TUI were all overloaded with other things.

scbrg on Aug 23, 2024 [–]

> But what does it actually stand for? Terminal user interface? Text user interface?

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface

The Wikipedia page is from 2004, so it's been around a while.

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