I wish people would stop back-porting new features into vt terms, since those “features” gradually leak into terminal programs, which start spewing garbage in older terminals at the next update. Instead of having a standard, we get ESC[whatever-the-fuck-i-feel-like;, but with vt220 characteristics.
Missing out on inline images and megabytes of true-color CSI codes is a feature, not a bug, when bandwidth is limited.
If you want jupyter, we have jupyter. If you want HTML, we have several browsers. If you want something else, make it, but please don’t use vt220 codes and call it a terminal.
The article is just wish-listing more NIH barbarism to break things with. RedHat would hire this guy in a heartbeat.
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