Blink: Support image display (imgcat)

[xinan]

iTerm 2 has this feature that supports the display of images:
https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html

I wonder if it is possible to have this on Blink. It would be cool!

[nrcharles]

I second this.

[goerz]

None of these things work inside a remote tmux session, do they?

[nrcharles]

imgcat will work with tmux integration mode.

[ZenBrayn]

imgcat will work with tmux integration mode.

@nrcharles just out of curiosity does this mean you got it working with Blink on iOS (e.g using some remote server with the the iTerm 2 tmux integration tools installed)?

On this kind of set-up, I can see the image fine on my Mac with iTerm 2, but just get a blank line with Blink. Thanks!

[yury]

[carloscabanero]

This should be already working on v9.308 under ssh!

[ZenBrayn]

Great! Thank @carloscabanero and @yury. I tracked down the hterm-show-file.sh script on GitHub and it's working great in Blink on iOS now.

[carloscabanero]

Interesting how we could use this also to transmit files between both machines and visualize them in other apps. I will open another issue for that. Thanks everyone!

[goerz]

I'm very impressed that this works out of the box even with tmux!!!

It doesn't seem to work with mosh though (but you write "working under ssh", so you probably know this). Is this a fundamental limitation, or are there plans to extend this to mosh as well?

[saptarshiguha]

For others, hterm-show is here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/master/hterm/etc/hterm-show-file.sh. With that said, I have tmux(master) running on the server.

Case 1: ssh into server, hterm-show-file file.png
Displays the image (so cool!)

Case 1: ssh into server,run tmux , then inside tmux, hterm-show-file file.png
Nothing (just a blank line).

I'm running the latest Blink (from the App store), which is version 10.0.

[sbromberger]

Having this work under mosh would be so awesome.

[subokita]

This would be great to have, since I've been using Blink as my main shell while working with TensorFlow, the ability to see the image displayed by matplotlib would make Blink really popular among data scientists / AI / ML engineers.

[dragon788]

I just did some testing and the hterm-show-file.sh works extremely well under screen, displaying images that most of the other terminal tools just gave up on, but anything newer than tmux 2.4 breaks that script and most others (though the Python version of imgcat can handle smaller images pretty well even in tmux but it doesn't know how to do things properly for screen).