notty

Also https://github.com/withoutboats/notty

Sounds like what notty was trying to do, though it seems unmaintained for 5yrs. https://github.com/withoutboats/notty/

I hope we can eventually move away from emulating DEC VT-series physical video terminals and rid ourselves of the associated cruft once and for all. The command line has the potential be so much more on modern systems. In this vein, I think notty[0] was the last meaningful attempt at moving things forward, but it seems to have lost its momentum. I guess we'll be stuck in the 80s forever. [0] https://github.com/withoutboats/notty

notty [1], although I believe it's dead currently. [1] https://github.com/withoutboats/notty

https://github.com/withoutboats/notty/issues/67 Dead project according to the author, though.

You might be interested in this: https://github.com/withoutboats/notty

I'm excited about notty [1], but I'm bummed the repo hasn't seen much action in awhile. I think the maintainer is on the Rust core team now. Some of its goals from the readme: - Full support for rich text formatting, including 24-bits of color. - Full and correct support for all of Unicode. - Lossless keyboard input. - Inline media content, including raster graphics and structured data. - Dropdown menus, tooltips, and other features which do not strictly reside in the character grid. - Local echo and retained off-screen character grid state to reduce the need for the tty to transmit data back to the terminal. - Subdividing the character grid to enable more complex interface layouts without repeatedly reimplementing that logic in the controlling process. It cites Gary Bernhardt's talk A Whole New World [2] as a major influence. There's an

This sounds like an excellent use case for withoutboat's[1] (aka tatterdemalion[2]) notty[3] terminal protocol project. [1] https://github.com/withoutboats [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tatterdemalion [1] https://github.com/withoutboats/notty

This is great. Since we are all posting alternatives, here's another: https://github.com/withoutboats/notty

TermKit's last update was late 2011 with the following line in it's readme Warning: Alpha version, still under development. Nothing works yet. Maybe if it was built on powershell (or on its own underlying system) it would have more hope, but *nix is far too heavily text centric notty seems to be trying to push that text-centricness as far as possible however https://github.com/withoutboats/notty

> do you have any plans to use Alacritty to try and advance the state of terminal emulators more generally? I hadn't replied to this because others had already provided all of the info I have. To summarize, the author of notty[0] and I are talking about a collaboration[1]. notty has done a ton of pathfinding in this area on identifying how to add many of these features in a backwards compatible way. I'm really looking forward to see where it goes! [0]: https://github.com/withoutboats/notty [1]: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/51

Another Rust terminal emulator project, notty[1], aims to do this. Downthread the author mentions that the projects are looking at collaborating. [1]: https://github.com/withoutboats/notty

And here's[1] a project inspired by Gary's talk to design and implement a new escape protocol and a new virtual terminal to support these sorts of use-cases. (I'm not involved with the project.) [1] https://github.com/withoutboats/notty

A new engine: https://github.com/withoutboats/notty

img = Base64.strict_encode64(IO.binread('guernica.jpg')) mime = Base64.strict_encode64('image/jpeg') puts "\x1b_[14;80;16;4##{mime}##{img}\u{9c}" https://github.com/withoutboats/notty/blob/master/scaffoldin... base64 is a very cool idea! I hope notty will succeed to define a new text protocol for terminals. We need that a lot!