[aklug] Re: console applications resource

* Arthur Corliss <acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org> [101122 14:04]:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Christopher Howard wrote:
>
> > Under "mplayer": was he playing a dvd video with only framebuffer support? Does that really work?
> >

> > Curious for other peoples' opinions: It seem to me like claiming
> > to live in a "graphics-less" environment, while running a bunch
> > of programs with ncurses (and similar) interfaces, is not quite
> > honest. You're just faking graphics with escape codes and
> > colored characters. (Playing tetris with an ncurses interface is
> > just silly...) To be a true purist, you'd have to do everything
> > from the command-line. (E.g., trade out vim for ed.)
>
> I call bull-crap on your assertion that curses is "faking" graphics. It's a
> simple screen control API for a *character* interface. Nothing more,
> nothing less. Anything that's strictly a character interface is not
> graphics, ASCII renderers notwithstanding. Where are you going to draw the
> line next, ban VT100 control codes?
>
> Personally, I do live practically in a graphic-less environment. X, for me,
> is just a way to get ten xterms on the screen at one time. But, as people
> pointed with the screen program, even going without X altogether is hardly
> a handicap. I don't need graphics to do my job.
>
> For real work in the enterprise market the CLI is king. It's the only thing
> that easily (and portably) lends itself to automation.

  I'd say 'amen' to Arthur's sermon, although I use 'vim' from 'MC'
  but 'gvim' to manage and code for projects. I find menus helpful
  at times, and the 'X' server gives gvim more key mappings.
  Example, on my machine (both ubuntu 10.04 and Slack 13) vim does
  not recognize Control-Space, which I use for code expansion on
  gvim.

  I dig the command line and use many ncurses-based applications.
  For me, it is what
  1)Makes me more productive.
  2)Is more fun.
  VT100 rocks..
  MTCW

-- 
Tim 
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http://www.akwebsoft.com
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