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by pen2l 2158 days ago
I think in this day and age we should be making bigger jumps than wanting color in our CLI.

We should have more than one font, we should have pictures. We're visual creatures, us humans. I think something like Jupyter, with in-line images et al is the future, or should be, at least.

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I strongly disagree. If we're going to use a TUI, it should embrace what it is. Turning it into a watered down GUI does not work to its strengths nor serve the needs of the users still working with it.
I dunno, Emacs works really well, and I line images and stuff is really nice. A good example of this is that you can have inline rendered LateX in your text buffer. And when you need to edit it, it turns about into texts.

Also inline graphs in org-mode is super nice.

I agree, but we're limited by terminal emulators. Not counting images in terminal (which can be done with a protocol few terminal supports), we don't even have Font Ligatures widely available.

https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#editor-compatibility-list