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by hprotagonist 2428 days ago
a GUI for CLIs is called a TUI.
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I've seen this TUI term come up a few times on Hacker News. The term I've heard at two companies that had extensive terminal interfaces with menus and screens is CHUI (rhymes with "chewy").

It's funny, though: the CHUIs that remain in the product for system administration are much more primitive now than they used to be. Instead of curses-style graphics with a UI, it's pure text.

Tangible user interfaces? Ah according to wiki it now also means text-user interface.
Terminal User Interface or Text-based User Interface