Yup, being sarcastic, you got me there.
Like, a variable font size such that a letter can be just one pixel high and wide? Yeah, that's a GUI. But I rather prefer GPU accelerated GUIs ;-)
Like, a variable font size such that a letter can be just one pixel high and wide? Yeah, that's a GUI. But I rather prefer GPU accelerated GUIs ;-)
Instead, this is the largest failing in my mind to TUIs. As eyesight goes, font sizes increase, and if you use a TUI so do your borders, pads, etc. You have no way to keep a reasonably consistent border size in a TUI if you also want larger fonts.
As it stands i'd prefer my "UI" elements in my TUI to be half the size they are currently. Gutters for things like line numbers or error indicators are obscenely wide due to this notion that they must be a full block size.
If instead you put restrictions on the division, such that font blocks would have to evenly divide then, hypothetically, misalignment would be less of a concern.
So many cool new TUIs are being born today but without very small font sizes they are made nearly useless imo. Popups in https://zellij.dev/ are another great example of something severely inhibited by old fashioned limitations.