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by spijdar
2157 days ago
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So, what you're saying is, since there are too many competing and incompatible standards, what we need is another incompatible standard? :) There are a lot of "better" terminal emulator standards out there. The problem is you need software that uses them. Perhaps this is the real "refinement" spoken of before -- these quirks are generally understood and software layers are built on top of them to abstract away the ugliness while keeping broad compatibility. There are lots of ideas on how to make a better CLI -- from Plan9's rio/window to various XML/DOM based terminal emulator, to a smorgasbord of xterm-but-added-features emulators that add support for anything from inline images to transmitting entire files over the TTY. Ultimately, these are only as useful as the software that uses them, which often ends up being just a few tools the terminal emulator itself ships with. Even Windows' alternative to TTYs has basically been supplanted by an xterm/VT-ish compatible TTY style interface for software compatibility reasons. |
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