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The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images

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Re: The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images

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post #5

that's nice, but .. wouldn't it be better to implement kitty graphics directly at this time ? https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/

I love everything about kitty except the refusal to implement sixel.

Maybe someone has an independent patch that can be applied?

Re: The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images

#13
post #9

Worth noting for people who don't use MS tech stack much, this is the new Terminal that you get from the windows store (for free) not cmd.exe Which anyone who knows how to actually use a terminal should have upgraded to years ago anyway, mind you.

Terminal is built into newer versions of Windows 11.

They added directly finally? Good to know they hadn't when I got Win 11.

Re: The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images

#14
Great! I'm always looking for more places where I can make semigraphics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semigraphics

but I've fallen out of the habit because it's a hassle to get them to display right all of the time on the web.

One of my favorite terminals of all times were the DEC ReGIS terminals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS

which supported a set of commands similar to the drawing commands in BASIC back in the day but supported more and better colors than home computers at the time and could also freely mix graphics and text. Since the PDP-11 supported BASIC you could write graphical programs in BASIC that would draw on the terminal using the right character sequences.

Re: The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images

#15
post #8

Worth noting for people who don't use MS tech stack much, this is the new Terminal that you get from the windows store (for free) not cmd.exe Which anyone who knows how to actually use a terminal should have upgraded to years ago anyway, mind you.

conhost.exe is the terminal, cmd.exe is the shell, this patch is in fact only currently used in conhost

conhost is in the terminal repo? Huh interesting, that surprises me.

Re: The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images

#16
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Terminal is built into newer versions of Windows 11.

They added directly finally? Good to know they hadn't when I got Win 11.

It's nice for me because my workplace turns off access to the Windows Store.

Re: The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images

#19

Worth noting for people who don't use MS tech stack much, this is the new Terminal that you get from the windows store (for free) not cmd.exe Which anyone who knows how to actually use a terminal should have upgraded to years ago anyway, mind you.

I was about to express my surprise that such a major part of Windows was now open source on Github.
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