July 1st, 2024

The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images

The Microsoft Terminal GitHub repository features a spell checking configuration with files like allow/*.txt, reject.txt, excludes.txt, patterns/*.txt, candidate.patterns, line_forbidden.patterns, expect/*.txt, and advice.md for various purposes. Detailed formats available.

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The Windows Console gets support for Sixel images

The Microsoft Terminal GitHub repository contains a configuration for spell checking. The configuration includes various files such as allow/*.txt for adding words to the dictionary, reject.txt for removing words, excludes.txt for ignoring files entirely, patterns/*.txt for ignoring patterns in checked lines, candidate.patterns for suggesting patterns, line_forbidden.patterns for flagging patterns, expect/*.txt for expected words not in the dictionary, and advice.md for GitHub comments on unrecognized words. Each file has a specific purpose and format detailed in the repository. For more information or assistance, further details can be provided upon request.

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By @wswope - 4 months
Congrats to the Windows Terminal team member who went through the process of getting a PhD to implement this.
By @runevault - 4 months
Worth noting for people who don't use MS tech stack much, this is the new Terminal that you get from the windows store (for free) not cmd.exe

Which anyone who knows how to actually use a terminal should have upgraded to years ago anyway, mind you.

By @bloopernova - 4 months
By @PaulHoule - 4 months
Great! I'm always looking for more places where I can make semigraphics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semigraphics

but I've fallen out of the habit because it's a hassle to get them to display right all of the time on the web.

One of my favorite terminals of all times were the DEC ReGIS terminals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS

which supported a set of commands similar to the drawing commands in BASIC back in the day but supported more and better colors than home computers at the time and could also freely mix graphics and text. Since the PDP-11 supported BASIC you could write graphical programs in BASIC that would draw on the terminal using the right character sequences.

By @makapuf - 4 months
that's nice, but .. wouldn't it be better to implement kitty graphics directly at this time ? https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/
By @IshKebab - 4 months
Woo, storming into the 1980s. Is this compatible with my Voodoo 2?
By @mid-kid - 4 months
I kind of lament that a format that was invented for dot matrix printers, where switching heads is a costly operation, transfer speeds don't matter since moving the head is a bottleneck, and color accuracy doesn't matter as the technology wasn't there yet, is being revived, as opposed to some of the more modern ideas for doing this... It doesn't make sense in a terminal emulator context at all.
By @ranger_danger - 4 months
Finally. msys2/mingw terminal (mintty) has had sixel support for many years now. Can't wait to see notcurses running on this.
By @rcarmo - 4 months
_looks pointedly at Apple_