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[[File:Vim-%28logiciel%29-console.png|thumb|300px|[[Vim (text editor)|Vim]] is a very widely used TUI text editor]]

In [[computing]], '''text-based user interfaces''' ('''TUI''') (alternately '''terminal user interfaces''', to reflect a dependence upon the properties of [[computer terminal]]s and not just text), is a [[Retron msr RNA|retronym]] describing a type of [[User interface design|user interface]] (UI) common as an early form of [[human–computer interaction]], before the advent of [[graphical user interface]]s (GUIs). Like GUIs, they may use the entire [[Electronic visual display|screen]] area and accept [[Computer mouse (computing)|mouse]] and other inputs. They may also use color and often structure the display using special graphical [[Character (computing)|character]]s such as ┌ and ╣, referred to in [[Unicode block|Unicode]] as the "box drawing" set. The modern context of use is usually a [[terminal emulator]].

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== Types of text terminals ==

From [[console application|text application]]'s point of view, a text screen (and communications with it) can belong to one of three types (here ordered in order of decreasing accessibility):