it kind of defeats it's own purpose. cat a.png -- show the image in a tiny terminal, but I have a billion pixel screen. why not just open it on the image view

it kind of defeats it's own purpose. cat a.png -- show the image in a tiny terminal, but I have a billion pixel screen. why not just open it on the image viewer window? you advocate this even for editing plain text in vim! think that if you had learned to use X your days would be more productive... maybe not as cool...