Re: [dev] [announce] ff2sixel: view farbfeld images in terminal

2017-03-21 Thread Leander S. Harding
This conversation comes around periodically, and the thing no-one ever seems to mention is: now these images are in your scrollback and as you scroll through what you're doing, you seem them instead of just the reference beginning 'feh ...'. This is really useful if you use scrollback Matlab-style

Re: [dev] [ubase] pager

2017-02-10 Thread Leander S. Harding
Andrée <maand...@kth.se> wrote: > Some pagers also support search, which can be very useful. > > On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:28:04 -0800 > "Leander S. Harding" <l...@lsh.io> wrote: > >> Personally, I've always thought that the VTxx escape >> sequence fam

Re: [dev] [ubase] pager

2017-02-10 Thread Leander S. Harding
Personally, I've always thought that the VTxx escape sequence family is missing one: enable/disable scroll-lock. Then, your 'pager' just consists of printing the scroll-lock sequences at the beginning and end of output and using your multiplexer's scrolling feature, and can be accomplished

Re: [dev] automating running and building

2016-01-07 Thread Leander S. Harding
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Greg Reagle wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 12:53:26AM +0100, hiro wrote: >> are you asking how to compile "make program; program" into a C program? ... > But this is all very ad-hoc and takes a lot of manual intervention and it > would be

Re: [dev] [farbfeld] version 1 release

2016-01-06 Thread Leander S. Harding
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:45 AM, FRIGN wrote: > Hello fellow hackers, > > I'm pleased to announce version 1 of farbfeld[0]... Modest proposal: let us define an animated-farbfeld format as a tarball of sequentially-name farbfeld files, perhaps with a metadata file containing frame

Re: [dev] simple slide generator

2014-11-01 Thread Leander S. Harding
At the other end of the spectrum, I've had good luck with Remark.js (http://remarkjs.com). It's only suckless relative to other presentation tools, but it handles all of the little annoyances of presentation rendering (deterministic text reflow, etc) for you and lets you just write your