sixel-gnuplot

Work in progress, but sixel support may be coming to mainline tmux: git clone git://github.com/tmux/tmux git switch sixel git checkout b1904c9b8db514133d3372aac13b2ff0b2093cc3 This will give you the "placeholder" box for sixels in terminals that do not support sixel (but you should use mlterm on Linux or mintty on Windows) The upcoming feature is to replace this placeholder box by unicode art for the sixels, cf https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/1613 for the current discussion. Then you will be able to break your dependency on the GUI just by using w3m and your favorites sites, whether your terminal supports sixel or not (but it should, it's just better!) apt-get install libsixel1-bin w3m -sixel -o display_image=1 google.com Cf https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/244930/how-do-i-vi... There are other apps with integrated sixel supp

Following the discussion on ET, here is my current work on a tmux fork to focus on accurate rendering of graphics (ANSI and sixels) My main goal is to be able to use sixel-gnuplot (a simple recompilation of gnuplot with the sixel backend enabled: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot ) on both remote and local hosts, in split windows. A few issues remain to do that, but it already works in horizontal split windows after 2 days: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/master/sixel-tmux.... You can recompile the source within msys2 on Windows 10; I also provide a binary on https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/raw/master/sixel-tmux.e...

Better solution: sixel-gnuplot Shameless plug: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot

Link for the impatient: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot/blob/8c3750a68ab6d1f...

Your post made me create an account to respond to you and upload a few screenshots of what I use along with binaries. Check github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot - you will see it's not just nice but also super practical. apt-get install mlterm and you're done! For fallback, I agree: a braille support in gnuplot would be great when sixel support is not available.

Someone said ASCII is a bad suited tool and I agree. I use the following with mintty on windows: (or mlterm on linux) #!/bin/bash export GNUTERM="sixelgd size 1280 720 truecolor font arial 10" gnuplot-nox -e "set title '$HOST'; plot '<cat'" Then it's just cat something | '{ print $5}' | tail -n +500 | sixel-plot.sh I put an example with a screenshot and recompiled gnuplot binaries (debian) on http://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot