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		kalterdev 36 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Charm Ruby – Glamorous Terminal Libraries for Ruby I feel sad for CLI tools shift from pure text to pseudo-graphics. A lot of text advantages is lost, few GUI strengths are met.

binarygit 34 days ago [–]

They can still output pure text depending on whether the tool's is getting piped etc. I think some commands do work like this

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