KittyTerminalImages.jl

I run Kitty and use this feature regularly. Most of the time, I rely on it within Yazi [1], a TUI file manager, but I can also display plots within the Julia REPL, thanks to the KittyTerminalImages.jl package [2]. It's even more crucial when I'm navigating a remote directory and need to check an image file, as I usually have timg [3] installed on those servers. Once you discover how valuable this is, it becomes a permanent part of your workflow. [1] https://yazi-rs.github.io/ [2] https://github.com/simonschoelly/KittyTerminalImages.jl [3] https://github.com/hzeller/timg

You have been able to draw plots from proper graphing libraries using actual images for years in terminals that support the kitty graphics protocol. See GNUPlot: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/integrations/#tool-gnuplot matplotlib: https://github.com/jktr/matplotlib-backend-kitty Julia: https://github.com/simonschoelly/KittyTerminalImages.jl The kitty graphics protocol is supported in three major terminals these days: kitty, WezTerm, konsole.

When using the Julia REPL I regularly use KittyTerminalImages [1], which is awesome because it fits perfectly with other plotting packages. [1] https://github.com/simonschoelly/KittyTerminalImages.jl

Kitty's ability to display is quite fun (although it is definitely not the first terminal editor to do so). A while ago I hacked a Julia package together so that functions that emit an image (for example a plot that would usually be displayed in a Jupyter notebook or a new window) show that image in kitty. It's still a bit rough, but it is surprisingly easy to write something integrates with a lot of packages: https://github.com/simonschoelly/KittyTerminalImages.jl