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Re:The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images by None4U on Monday July 01, 2024 @01:56PM (#40848366)
conhost.exe is the terminal, cmd.exe is the shell, this patch is in fact only currently used in conhost
Re:The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images by zadjii on Monday July 01, 2024 @02:23PM (#40848718)
That is _technically_ correct (the best kind). There's some plumbing between conhost and Terminal we need to clean up before we can add it to Terminal too. We've got a branch ready, we've just got to merge a whole stack of PRs first before we can get there.
Re:The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images by runevault on Monday July 01, 2024 @02:01PM (#40848445)
conhost is in the terminal repo? Huh interesting, that surprises me.
Re:The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images by zadjii on Monday July 01, 2024 @02:18PM (#40848658)
Conhost and Terminal share quite a lot of code in fact. The text buffer, the renderer, the VT sequence parser - all that's the same codebase. That allows bugfixes and improvements to the the Terminal to also flow back to the vintage console (for people who still use that)
Re:The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images by slyfox125 on Monday July 01, 2024 @11:21PM (#40853263)
Interesting tidbit - thank you for sharing. That's handy for those who prefer the vintage console (including myself).