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As somebody who grew up during the semi-graphic era, it makes me sad that we still use a 30 year old standard for terminals and cannot do direct plot in the mai
by dorfsmay 6y ago
As somebody who grew up during the semi-graphic era, it makes me sad that we still use a 30 year old standard for terminals and cannot do direct plot in the main terminal (as opposed to the Tektronix separate window).
- tempodox 6y agoI was thinking something similar. Looking at this makes me wish a terminal app could just embed a PNG or whatever in its output.
- kps 6y agoThe OSC 1337 protocol pioneered by iTerm2 does exactly that. You'll have to check whether your preferred terminal supports it (I known mlterm does), either from documentation or just trying it¹. Also, some terminals support the DEC SIXEL protocol² (again, I know mlterm does). ¹ https://www.iterm2.com/utilities/imgcat https://www.iterm2.com/utilities/imgcat ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel Edit: I couldn't find a simple SIXEL sample — you'd think one of the popular sixel libraries would have some in unit tests, but no. So for the purpose of this thread (but maybe not forever, hence /tmp/), curl https://datatravelandexperiments.com/kps/tmp/example.sixel curl https://datatravelandexperiments.com/kps/tmp/example.osc1337 Those are such that output directly to the terminal will produce an image if that format is supported (and probably nothing if not, but I'm not making promises).
- z3t4 6y agoI heard they have something similar at Cern and it also has clickable links and universal resource locators.
- KenoFischer 6y agoSeveral terminals (kitty, iTerm2) do support plotting right into the terminal, but this is still sometimes useful if you don't want to load a while graphics stack just to do a simple plot.