A TUI, or
text user interface, is a user interface that takes some elements of
GUIs and places them in a
character-cell environment (as opposed to an
APA (all points addressable) environment). Applications that use a TUI are very useful for *N?X users who don't want to spend lots of
RAM on the
X window system.
TUI toolkits:
Popular applications using TUIs:
- Linuxconf from the console (curses)
- Linux kernel's "make menuconfig" option (curses)
- RHIDE, a GCC-oriented IDE for DOS and Linux, using conio
- Emacs, the one true editor for *N?X (without X) and DOS, (apparently) using curses
- Jed, using S-Lang