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by sekao 1278 days ago
I think we will need new standards here, because terminal emulators currently don't have any semantic information about what TUI programs are rendering. Browsers have the benefit of HTML to know this is a button, and that is a paragraph. A terminal is an unstructured grid of characters. The best we can hope for is for terminal emulators to use heuristics or AI to make sense of what TUI programs are rendering.