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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



  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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