Feature Suggestion: Output Handler

[yschimke]

Some code from my own libraries that could be useful if you want richer terminal integration.

Launching preview apps

https://github.com/yschimke/oksocial-output/blob/master/src/main/kotlin/com/baulsupp/oksocial/output/OsxOutputHandler.kt

Json pretty printing

https://github.com/yschimke/oksocial-output/blob/master/src/main/kotlin/com/baulsupp/oksocial/output/ConsoleHandler.kt

Image support (e.g. iTerm2)

https://github.com/yschimke/oksocial-output/blob/master/src/main/kotlin/com/baulsupp/oksocial/output/iterm/ItermOutputHandler.kt

[yschimke]

I'm mainly suggesting this as this is code I've built myself but used in multiple apps. Definitely one to close if it's not useful, but for various CLIs being able to have an API to show output to users and use the highest fidelity representation.

[yschimke]

Example output in iTerm

src/test/kotlin/commands/tweetsearch.kts Pusheen

[yschimke]

src/test/kotlin/commands/uberprices.kts Buckingham Palace

[yschimke]

[remkop]

All of these look very cool!
I need some time to look into this in more detail.
(Reminds me a bit of Windows Terminal microsoft/terminal#448, that also opens some exciting possibilities.)
Definitely interested in providing tight integration with advanced shells.

iTerm inline images: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html (also implemented by MinTTY)

Further reading:

• https://gitlab.com/klamonte/jexer
• https://askubuntu.com/questions/97542/how-do-i-make-my-terminal-display-graphical-pictures
• https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-display-thumbnail-images-in-terminal/
• support non-text BufferLine xtermjs/xterm.js#1901 (comment)
• https://www.enlightenment.org/about-terminology
• https://invisible-island.net/xterm/
• https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ and https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol.html
• discussion between terminal emulator authors in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/issues/12
• Microsoft Terminal is considering whether to support this: Display graphical images in terminal microsoft/terminal#5746