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This is one thing I myself was considering writing, as there is no reason why today's terminal emulators, which I spend most of my time on my machine, shouldn't
by yati 14y ago
This is one thing I myself was considering writing, as there is no reason why today's terminal emulators, which I spend most of my time on my machine, shouldn't be able to also display media. This will team up with ranger very nicely for the ultimate terminal-foo!
- micampe 14y agoOn the other hand, I couldn’t help thinking, while watching the video, why should my terminal load web pages and images? I’ve done the same thing both in Linux and now on OS X, by using various 'open' commands or – on OS X – 'qlmanage -p', which opens a QuickLook window for a file, just like the video is showing, but it’s system wide and not in my terminal. And this is not a “OS X had this before” post, it’s just that the feature seems more fit to an external program to me. I’m trying not to type unix philosophy here, but it’s going right against it.
- zokier 14y agoThumbnails for filelists seems somewhat useful. And another use for inline image display is that you could be modifying the image and then scroll back and forth to see the results and intermediates.
- micampe 14y agoI was referring to displaying files in a separate window, not to file listings.
- spolu 14y agoTotally agreed. And at the same time there are so many improvements that can be done in a new terminal emulator other than displaying rich media!
- pekk 14y agoOut of curiosity, what? Setting aside actual emulation of old school terminals, most of today's many terminal programs have very similar feature sets.
- frozenport 14y agoI'm confused. What does 'cat myimage.jpg do'? You can easily display images using other programs. The terminal is for things that can be easily manipulated.