Support for showing pictures #11610
Description
It would be nice if Helix could display images, where desired.
Use cases for this could include for example (but not limited to)
- viewing programmatically generated graphics in the editor, while editing the code
- previewing image assets when finding, inserting, and using filenames
- creating a pixel-based output buffer for future plugins to draw on, for richer output experience
There is a strong contender for a possible standard terminal graphics protocol: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/
In the Kitty terminal, you can use kitty icat image.png to view an image directly in the terminal. In addition, the page lists 15 other applications and 9 libraries currently utilizing (and exposing) the protocol.
This is also not limited to Kitty:
Other terminals that have implemented the graphics protocol:
Other options for implementing this could potentially exist, too, but they might be behind in the adoption curve.