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Enlightenment Terminal Allows Video Playback, PDF Viewing

Posted by Unknown on from the symbolics-did-it-better dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The E17 Enlightenment project has released a new version of its Terminology terminal emulator. With Terminology 0.3 comes several fancy features, including the ability to preview video files, images, and PDF files from within the terminal. There's new escape sequences, inline video playback, and other features to this terminal emulator that's only built on EFL and libc."

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  1. Re:Seems logical.. by Dixie_Flatline · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is for people that like to work in the terminal--instead of a file browser--but still want to look at all their files.

    When the UNIX terminal was invented, there weren't a lot of things to look at other than text files. Times have changed somewhat since then.

    The terminal is often the best place to get work done, and sometimes you don't want to go into a file browser or fire up an external viewer just to look at a PDF. Being able to preview a file so you can correctly sort it into a directory, for instance, seems like a good use of this upgrade.

    In OS X, you can get something like Pathfinder that lets you manage your files graphically, but has an attached shell if you need one. This is just a more terminal-centric view of things. You can still work text-only, if you like.