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I think it would be great if we could go beyond text in terminal applications. Think Jupyter notebooks but inside terminal. It would be great if terminal window
by GreaterFool 10y ago
I think it would be great if we could go beyond text in terminal applications. Think Jupyter notebooks but inside terminal. It would be great if terminal window was just an OpenGL surface that one could draw on, with good API for doing just text. Something as simple as "put this interactive plot in this 20x20 area there" would make a big difference for a lot of programs and scripts I'm writing. At the moment if I want something like that I pipe the data through websocket to the browser and that's OK but I'd rather stay in the terminal.
- Per_Bothner 10y agoThat is the goal of the DomTerm http://domterm.org http://domterm.org project. I see little point in a JS-based terminal emulator unless you can "print out" graphics, images, or general HTML. DomTerm's goal is "full" xterm compatibility and embeddable graphics, rich(er) text, etc.