what leander says finally makes more sense. sadly scrollback, command history, etc. is way too crude. always found linux terminal scrollback buffers unusable, so I try not to rely on it at all. example: make the terminal smaller, make it bigger again: lines have been cut off...
On 3/21/17, Leander S. Harding <l...@lsh.io> wrote: > 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 <23h...@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 <d...@frign.de> wrote: >>> On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 02:57:20 +0300 >>> Alexander Krotov <ilab...@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 <d...@frign.de> >>> >>> >> > >
