Re:What do you envision from the terminal of the future?
by zadjii on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:36PM
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Huh. Interesting talk, never seen that before.
Ironically, most of the things he tries to bring home as his conclusion that "you'd have to rewrite the whole terminal" are things that are already supported by most terminals:
- RGB colored text
- Bold, italic, underlined text
- drawing raster graphics to the grid (Okay, many terminals implement sixel but not everyone)
- mouse events (heck that's been there since vt220?)
- being able to listen for key down AND key up events (maybe less supported, but something that many emulators have sure thought about in the past[1])
I'm definitely a huge fan of "sitting in a hammock and thinking about things" though. Maybe that's part of the reason I started this thread. What things should we be thinking about for the next few years?
Ironically, most of the things he tries to bring home as his conclusion that "you'd have to rewrite the whole terminal" are things that are already supported by most terminals:
- RGB colored text
- Bold, italic, underlined text
- drawing raster graphics to the grid (Okay, many terminals implement sixel but not everyone)
- mouse events (heck that's been there since vt220?)
- being able to listen for key down AND key up events (maybe less supported, but something that many emulators have sure thought about in the past[1])
I'm definitely a huge fan of "sitting in a hammock and thinking about things" though. Maybe that's part of the reason I started this thread. What things should we be thinking about for the next few years?
[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/4999#issuecomme...