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<p>Which anyone who knows how to actually use a terminal should have upgraded to years ago anyway, mind you.
Great! I'm always looking for more places where I can make semigraphics<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semigraphics" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semigraphics</a><p>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.<p>One of my favorite terminals of all times were the DEC ReGIS terminals<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS</a><p>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.
that's nice, but .. wouldn't it be better to implement kitty graphics directly at this time ? <a href="https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/" rel="nofollow">https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/</a>
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.