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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: 0.202s | 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. lifthrasiir ◴[24 Jun 25 08:09 UTC] No.44363895[source]▶
Agreed. Emojis are even more prominent than colors, so they should be very sparingly used. I'm not against the use of emojis in terminals per se (regardless of my opinion of the very introduction to emojis in Unicode), but they are now too many to be visually ignored.