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		mechanicum 69 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Ch... More than two, e.g. there’s also the Inline Images Protocol supported by iTerm2 and WezTerm. Kovid documented his rationale at some length here: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/33

zadjii 69 days ago [–]

FWIW The definitive thread on "images in terminals" is probably found in these threads:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/...

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/...

there's lengthy discussion from just about everyone at this point in those threads, about why images in terminals is Hard

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