From: "Ethan A. Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] I prefer cropping images in Plan 9
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:42:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1532252544.733138.1448800784.1DAFD54E@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFSF3XMMKgLd-=DV8Q=WOfTLTqWYisnLoo82ZTvbt5cW_m1SvQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, at 5:17 PM, hiro wrote:
> > do this, I think one thing that could maybe be interesting would be for the
> > files to potentially contain rich data, not just plain text? Kind of like
> > TempleOS or systemd's journal does.
>
> Rich data? You mean like... images?
>
Ha ha! :)
Images in the terminal would be fun, but would have to wait until we have more than vt220/char cell display. That means it's going to get implemented under Plan 9 first, most likely.
Forgot to say in other mail: Nothing wrong with storing structured pipe data in a file, but I'd like the data to be mostly utf-8 text to ease debugging and byte ordering.
--
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-22 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-21 13:19 Ethan A. Gardener
2018-07-21 15:20 ` Ryan Gonzalez
2018-07-21 16:17 ` hiro
2018-07-22 9:42 ` Ethan A. Gardener [this message]
2018-07-22 9:27 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-07-22 11:24 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-07-23 3:55 ` Lucio De Re
2018-07-23 7:19 ` hiro
2018-07-24 0:25 ` Steve Simon
2018-07-24 7:46 ` hiro
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