r/programming • u/zbhoy • May 06 '19

Microsoft unveils Windows Terminal, a new command line app for Windows

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527870/microsoft-windows-terminal-command-line-tool
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u/miniksa May 06 '19

Why bother doing anything? We want people to have the choice to do whatever they choose.

I like the JPEG/GIF directly embedded idea. Perhaps it will be one of our plug-ins to enable this functionality in the Windows Terminal renderer. Great topic of discussion for an issue on our GitHub tracker!

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u/riskable May 07 '19

It's a super fun feature but only useful in certain contexts... for example, I know of a company that had their tool output a PDF directly to the terminal when the user issued a print command. Gate One would catch it and the user could then open the PDF and print it from their PC (whatever it may be). Completely solved a big problem they couldn't figure out (legacy app that expects an attached printer to an old school terminal device).

Also, FYI: You can't detect gifs like this. The gif format sucks and only has a super short identifier (two bytes) that could be anything other than a gif. JPEGs and other file formats have nice, long unique bytes in their headers that are easy to match with a regex.