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>So because TUIs look universally bad

You can't stay engaged if the menus don't bleep and bloop at you and confetti rains down on every click? That's a personal problem. A minimal UI is not automatically a bad-looking UI.

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No, but I want to click to place the cursor in my 10 line prompt wherever I want. I want to double click to mark words. I want to use a scroll bar. I want to copy paste properly and not "23 lines pasted". I don’t want to read docs to find all keystrokes the TUI supports to achieve what I want.

You can handle mouse events in a TUI

https://ratatui.rs/concepts/backends/mouse-capture/

>I want to click to place the cursor in my 10 line prompt wherever I want. I want to double click to mark words. I want to use a scroll bar. I want to copy paste properly and not "23 lines pasted"

sounds like your terminal emulator is just crap, terminal and iterm on mac just work

iTerm2. Doesn’t work out of the box or something, but I’ll take a look at my config.

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