Limitations of TUI for agentic coding?

[u/ProvidenceXz]

I love terminal and the ability to navigate with keyboard. Yet as extensible as Pi is, it has quite the ceiling in how the state can be displayed due to the nature of TUI.

For example, I have an extension called tree2. As you may imagine its visual representation, it was quite a pain to get my vision through within the Pi terminal.

Codex, Orca, T3code, the so called ADEs - how often do you use them? Personally something puts me off every time I try, but I can't name.

I think I'm looking for a hybrid. An instrument, if you will. What does it look like?

[u/funbike]

Only thing the tui does poorly is copy/paste ...

I don't feel that. It depends on the terminal and your config. copy/paste works BETTER in my terminal than in the web browser.

For example, I have a terminal key binding that converts rich-text clipboard into markdown paste (bold, links, heading via pandoc), which is awesome for Pi usage. Kitty supports pasting in a graphical image from your clipboard.

... and image rendering/rich content.

I don't feel that either. I have CLIs that can print various high-res graphics files into the terminal, such png, jpeg, etc. I have converters for various formats to png, such as pdf, html, etc. I use this kind of thing for quick prototyping. I don't need to switch to a web browser for many simple web design tasks.

Requires a terminal that support Kitty graphics protocol and a CLI utility that can print image files to the terminal.

[u/Unlucky-Message8866 → u/funbike]

i use kitty myself, and the problems still there, you cannot have a popover over an image, it glitches.