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		freddie_mercury on Feb 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equ... There's no reason images can't be displayed in terminals other "that's not how terminals work" historical baggage. iTerm2, as one example, can display images just fine.

inetknght on Feb 18, 2020 [–]

If I wanted images in my text I would use Code.

Images are fine as long as they don't fuck with line counts or column counts.

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