Hi, On 2018-05-22 21:21, Adrian Grigore wrote: >> Maybe a nice thing to have would be to get the terminal emulator to > treat the field and record separator in a special way. So the programs > all output fs and rs, and the terminal emulator uses these characters to > layout the data in a tabular way. > > There's no terminal that does this, right?
None that I know of. There is https://github.com/unconed/TermKit which has “Rich output for common tasks and formats, using MIME types + sniffing”. In practice, this means that if you `cat foo.png` it'll show up as an image and if you `cat foo.html` it'll show the output with syntax colouring. But it's not a text-based terminal emulator: it's written in javascript and runs on top of a chromeless browser. I think it should be possible to have some level of “rich output” without ruining all the benefits of a simple and consistent text-based system. Tabulating output based on fs/rs would be one thing. OTOH, you might as well just pipe the output through a layout program that transform all the fs/rs into characters appropriate for visual inspection. Bye, -- Raphaël
