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plmpsu
What can Sixel do for me? Any interesting examples?
matt_kantor
It can display images in your terminal. This is made pretty clear by the first paragraph on the page and also by the Wikipedia article it links to[0]; I'm wondering what else you're asking for.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel

1718627440
Feels to me like it violates the only real assumption for a terminal.
eqvinox
Is it really worth the effort? What's the use case?
bitwize
Indeed. The world has moved on to the Kitty graphics protocol.
nom
displaying images in PuTTY is of vital importance to the survival of humanity, obviously
jimjimjim
I haven't really tried sixel yet but I run wezterm as a daily driver and it is very convenient to be able to view images in the command line. e.g ls the directory and then run img foo.jpg on the images in the directory without needing to switch windows.