From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <1532252544.733138.1448800784.1DAFD54E@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: "Ethan A. Gardener" To: 9fans@9fans.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:42:24 +0100 References: <1532179143.3742505.1448197440.4A02E3CA@webmail.messagingengine.com> <164bd6dd850.27a3.db5b03704c129196a4e9415e55413ce6@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [9fans] I prefer cropping images in Plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d960ef3a-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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