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by pjmlp 2151 days ago
Except when those CLI applications happen to use curses, conio, or TTY escape codes for their output.

It is like the "Everything is a file", except when it is not.

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Right, my point is that most CLI applications use text as output, versus most GUI applications do not.

Saying "Your point isn't true when there are exceptions" is a lazy argument, honestly. It is overwhelmingly the case that CLI applications use text as output, and my original point was specifically about how I wish this were more often the case with GUI applications — that you could somehow interface with them and compose them in the same way you generally can with CLI applications.