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skeledrewyesterday at 7:57 AM1 replyview on HN

It's easier to automate TUIs, since it's just text.


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benj111yesterday at 9:29 AM

Nit. Surely it would be keyboard navigation? Your macro can consist of the key presses you would actually use, rather than trying to describe mouse movement.

If you want to automate from the perspective of what's on screen, tuis have no metadata. A button in a gui does have metadata associated with it, so you could automate 'click button x' where as in a TUI you'd be limited to clicking 'position x,y'

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