This conversation comes around periodically, and the thing no-one ever
seems to mention is: now these images are in your scrollback and as
you scroll through what you're doing, you seem them instead of just
the reference beginning 'feh ...'. This is really useful if you use
scrollback Matlab-style as a sort of externalized medium-term memory
like I do.
That doesn't mean I think st should become Terminology, mind, but
there *is* a use-case here.
Now, while we're dreaming, what'd *really* be useful is a Matlab-style
'ans' function that pipes out the result of the nth-last command's
stdout/err. ! and friends aren't suitable because the output might be
different on re-run - I'm talking about grabbing what got written to
the terminal since the last shell prompt.
Should be pretty easy to implement with something like dvtm's select pipe.
-Leander
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 2:10 AM, hiro <23hiro_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> why would one want to view images in st, can't your shell start other
> graphical programs for that? is st becoming a new kind of web browser
> now? and why don't you open remote images using a remote file system
> instead of fucking around with remote shells and then trying to
> display them in a local terminal?!
>
> i mean even loonix can do this already. sshfs, qiv (or other proper
> graphical application of your choice). you even have a window manager
> in your same old project here, why not open some windows already?
>
> On 3/20/17, Laslo Hunhold <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 02:57:20 +0300
>> Alexander Krotov <ilabdsf_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Alexander,
>>
>>> I have crafted a program to convert farbfeld images to sixels:
>>> https://github.com/ilabdsf/ff2sixel
>>
>> this is very cool! Sixels are definitely an interesting concept to view
>> images over an SSH-connection.
>>
>>> Too bad st does not have a patch to display sixels, so I am going
>>> to use mlterm when I need to browse images. One simple way to
>>> implement it in st is to cut out sixel images, convert them back
>>> to farbfeld (with separate process) and pass result to lel. Not
>>> going to do it now, just an idea.
>>
>> There were discussions on sixel support in st, and I think even some
>> code written for it. Can anybody give a status update on that one?
>>
>> With best regards
>>
>> Laslo
>>
>> --
>> Laslo Hunhold <dev_AT_frign.de>
>>
>>
>
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