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> VT220 state machine diagram can be printed on a single letter- or A4-sized sheet of paper. Does it cover Tek and ReGIS? Where can I find it?
https://vt100.net/emu/dec_ansi_parser VT500 should include ReGIS
Make the terminal very simple and easy to understand. Rid us of the text-only terminal baggage that we deal with today. Even graphics are encoded as text, sent to the terminal, then decoded and dealt with. Plan9 had the terminal right. It wasn't really a terminal, it was just a window which had a text prompt by default. It could run (and display!) graphical applications just as easily as textual applications. If you…
The discussion is about the terminal as an interface rather the emulator/renderer specifically, or in this case the windowing system. So in Plan 9 you could've a GUI app overtake the root window but could you have graphics intertwined with text when working at the shell?
I don't know, but I assume so. Also I can't think of a use case for this but that's just my lack of imagination, I suspect.
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> Many HN readers grok software development, would likely get a kick out of learning Emacs Lisp, and have time to invest in coding and debugging. but why would they? what problems are they solving by being able to paste text into your web browsers address bar? or load a pdf into an LLM? or some other incredibly specific-to-you ability youve added? if simply adding a lisp interpreter to a program is enough to impress…
“What is the point of a paint brush? Sure, an artist picks it up and paints a masterpiece, but I see no utility in that because when I pick it up, all I can paint are squiggly lines. Paint brushes are useless!”