Re:Putting the I back in IDE
by oblio on Thursday March 29, 2018 @02:30AM
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Terminals do have rich text, I have to point that out. Not conhost, the default one on Windows (though I think the latest Windows update might have it).
So you can have underline, bold, italic, squiggles, I think even strikethrough. Also you can have tooltip "windows" but since they're harder to create and manage few applications use them. Those that do are generally based on ncurses, a library for TUI (think Norton Commander or Turbo Pascal)
Vim even has a spell checker built in.
What the terminal does not have is usually consistent support because terminal emulators are really shady, there's no actual standard (most just do what xterm does). For the TUI thing, there's also no real conventions plus I'm pretty sure both Vim and Emacs don't use ncurses and roll their own (see: lack of consistency).
You also need to cobble things together out of packages with varying degrees of quality and documentation, from long forgotten wikis and 90's pages belongings to ex post-docs.
So you can have underline, bold, italic, squiggles, I think even strikethrough. Also you can have tooltip "windows" but since they're harder to create and manage few applications use them. Those that do are generally based on ncurses, a library for TUI (think Norton Commander or Turbo Pascal)
Vim even has a spell checker built in.
What the terminal does not have is usually consistent support because terminal emulators are really shady, there's no actual standard (most just do what xterm does). For the TUI thing, there's also no real conventions plus I'm pretty sure both Vim and Emacs don't use ncurses and roll their own (see: lack of consistency).
You also need to cobble things together out of packages with varying degrees of quality and documentation, from long forgotten wikis and 90's pages belongings to ex post-docs.