[iLemming]

And so? Emacs GUI already does tons of things that don't work in terminal:

- It can render different fontsets

- PDFs

- SVG and images

- Emojis and file icons

- Tooltips

- Drag&Drop and better mouse support (scrolling, selection, etc.)

I think it would be great to have a better GUI layer and native web-browser integration. Emacs' evolution doesn't have to be constrained by terminal limitations, and so far it doesn't seem that it was.

[nine_k]

With xterm (Kitty, WezTerm, Alacritty) you can have good mouse support, hence you can have tooltip-like popups (AFAICT eldoc or lsp-ui-doc do it), and likely even drag and drop (never used it).

I suspect that with sixel support, and kitty image protocol support, images could be shown, too. At least, Eat, the elisp-based terminal.emulator, manages to show sixel graphics inside Emacs.