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Can your terminal do emojis? How big?

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178 points dgl | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 02:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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sebtron ◴[24 Jun 25 06:52 UTC] No.44363495[source]▶
Am I the only one who actually dislikes the recent trend of putting emojis everywhere in CLI tools? I am ok with red and yellow text for errors and warning, and I can stand green for success (though I find it useless), but emoji's are just distracting.
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1. nickdothutton ◴[24 Jun 25 07:39 UTC] No.44363754[source]▶
Unless the emoji is serving the purpose of a button or icon, then at the CLI (and TUI) I prefer not to see them. A good example (IMO) of their proper use would be as a traffic light indicator for something. Always consider the output of your program may be used as the input for another program to paraphrase klt.