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811.
by kps 3y ago
I hadn't heard of RIPscrip but NAPLPS/Telidon were big here — in the sense of talk and free money, not in the sense that anyone actually used them. (I remember the hype, but it was before my working life. I have a Telidon keypad i
812.
by kps 3y ago
Both. It's barely mentioned, though, and clear that they intended people to use ReGIS instead, presumably due to bitmaps not being very useful at 19.2K.
813.
by kps 3y ago
I thought the VT240 had sixels as well as ReGIS, but now I'll have to look it up. Edit: (a) The VT240 (1984) did do sixels (§4.18.1 of VT240 Series Programmer Reference Manual). (b) xterm didn't add it until 2013. Maybe I was thin
814.
by kps 3y ago
I know that at least Konsole, mlterm (which I use), and wezterm support iTerm's method. Unfortunately iTerm's method does not have a googlable name like ‘sixel’.
815.
by kps 3y ago
They date to DEC terminals of the early '80s. DEC was involved in developing X Windows (competing with other windows systems like Sun's NeWS) and xterm supports many of the DEC terminal extensions to ANSI X3.64.
816.
by kps 3y ago
Technically it may not be, but xterm has supported it approximately forever, and xterm is the de-facto standard minimum terminal emulator.
817.
by kps 3y ago
HN isn't putting this on one line, but echo $'\EP0;0;0q"1;1;6;6#0;2;100;0;100#1;2;0;0;100#2;2;0;100;100#3;2;0;100;0#4;2;100;100;0#5;2;100;0;0#6;2;100;100;100#7;2;0;0;0#0!6_$#1!6O$#2!6G$#3!6C$#4!6A$#5!6@-\E\\'
818.
by kps 3y ago
For me the most common breakage was due to ssh dropping overnight (by corp security policy) while a remote editor has the (local) terminal in an altered state (i.e. modifyOtherKeys). Easy to recover, and for me well worth it for the direct
819.
by kps 3y ago
For those who take the weekend off, yesterday's Sixel discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35936331
820.
by kps 3y ago
If you're in control of the sixel producer, tmux has a ‘passthrough’ sequence, ESC Ptmux … (I used to use tmux, but ultimately found it more trouble than it was worth.)
821.
by kps 3y ago
That is also supported by some other terminals; at least mlterm and Konsole handle it.
822.
by kps 3y ago
> [10] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/standards/EL-SM070-00_DEC_S... Nice. I wish I'd had that years ago when the maintainer of a then-popular virtual terminal got very angry at me for suggesting th
823.
by kps 3y ago
My apologies — I dislike seeing unexplained acronyms myself. As detaro answered before me, it's ‘not invented here’, the tendency to reject existing solutions for a sense of control.
824.
by kps 3y ago
There are two of us! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34373035 It's there: https://www.arewesixelyet.com/#mlterm
825.
by kps 3y ago
$ mpv -vo=sixel ~/Downloads/pirated-hollywood-blockbuster.mkv
826.
by kps 3y ago
Yes, every xterm-compatible should have them. You just send the particular query (e.g. ‘CSI 14 t’) and the terminal sends back a response in the defined form¹. Of course you'll want raw mode, echo off, etc. Normally a library like curs
827.
by kps 3y ago
‘CSI 16 t’ reports the character size in pixels directly.
828.
by kps 3y ago
Kitty is the epitome of NIH. They don't do modifyOtherKeys either.
829.
by kps 3y ago
Is ReGIS support uncommon? I know the terminal I use on Linux (mlterm) does, as does plain ol' xterm of course. (As an aside, it's annoying how many terminals set TERM to `xterm-256color` without being xterm compatible .)
830.
by kps 3y ago
For those like me with the opposite inclinations, try dtach. It is only a session handler. It does not pretend to be a terminal, or do splits or tabs or anything but I/O. That's left to your actual terminal.
831.
by kps 3y ago
A context menu operation will be platform-specific, and I don't think you mentioned your platform(s). On MacOS, I used to use https://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/ (which also does HTML entities). If you&#x2
832.
by kps 3y ago
That's because it was digitized wrong, from the metal rather than from the effect of the metal smacking a ribbon onto paper.
833.
by kps 3y ago
That's awful. Can you have "<=" ≡ "≤" and "<=" ≡ "⇐" but "≤" ≢ "⇐"?
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by kps 3y ago
> (But I really wish Space was split into at least two keys. It’s so stupidly large.) If you can stand the tiny distant Return, get a Japanese keyboard.
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by kps 3y ago
Whatever font you prefer in the terminal, Julia Mono is an excellent fallback due to its high symbol coverage.
836.
by kps 3y ago
Microsoft's clumsy extension of IBM's short-sighted PC keyboard (and CUA) has a lot to answer for. It's too bad they didn't do a better job of ripping off either Apple keyboards or Unix workstation keyboards. I persona
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by kps 3y ago
Δ vs ∆ is a slightly better example, since traditional printed mathematics just used the former. (Not making you look: U+0394 GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA vs U+2206 INCREMENT)
838.
by kps 3y ago
> I gotta say I’m a little tired of using * for multiplication. U+2062 is the obvious solution.
839.
by kps 3y ago
KDE Connect. That's the feature I use most. Open KDE Connect on the phone, select the target computer, ‘Send Photos and Videos’, select the photos, and hit ‘Add’. They end up in a configurable directory on the host. I previously used U
840.
by kps 3y ago
> 6. Locating Your Misplaced Phone […] This feature is a great alternative if you don’t have an Apple Watch that you can use to ping your iPhone. That doesn't actually work for iPhones, since (per Apple restrictions) KDE Connect h

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