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by citrin_ru 49 days ago
One of TUI advantages over GUIs (including modern web sites) - all text can be selected/copied (you may need to use modifies in some TUI). It's a bit frustrating when GUI shows text but I cannot select and copy it.
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Is that always beneficial? Do you ever want to select the text of a confirm button?

What if it just popped on top in a dialog to the content you were about to select?

It's not only about buttons. A web-app of trading platform I use doesn't allow to copy-paste a fund name (both in web and in the mobile app). I don't think they disallow this intentionally, likely an artefact of GUI framework they use.
That's a very good point. I hadn't thought about that aspect before.