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Dev tools · May 6, 2013

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HTerm, The Graphical Terminal for iOS, MacOS and Linux

HTerm, The Graphical Terminal for iOS, MacOS and Linux launched on May 6, 2013 with 67 votes, #39 of 587 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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In plain words

HTerm is a graphical terminal application for macOS, Linux, and iOS that displays inline images and graphics without requiring server-side support or additional dependencies beyond base64 encoding. It leverages the ReGIS graphics language, originally used in 1980s terminals, to render simple graphics directly within the terminal interface. The tool is designed for developers who want to incorporate visual elements into command-line workflows across multiple platforms.

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From the sources

A graphical terminal requiring no serverside support. Available for MacOS X, Linux and iOS. Display inline image data, without opening a backchannel, the only dependency is base64! It's not well known, but graphical terminals have been around for more than 25 years. One of the earliest implementations was in the VK100 (or “GIGI”) terminal, released in the early 1980s, it used a graphics drawing langauge called ReGIS . Lucky Gnuplot still supports ReGIS, and we can use this capability to render simple graphics simply and quickly in the terminal. See the examples sections for a quick walkthrough. However a lot of the time you want more than just a quick plot. A common usecase…from 41j.com

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