Open ykhan21 opened 4 months ago
Unfortunately, image support is currently not available on Windows.
Adding image support on Windows wasn't as trivial as I initially thought. Since I'm not a Windows user and have limited knowledge of the platform, I wasn't able to do it.
I have limited knowledge of this myself, but it could be that Windows ConPTY might be interfering with the image previews, according to my understanding of this issue (https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/1252). The program that create to output sixel graphics need to be compiled with cygwin to avoid ConPTY and other Windows APIs.
For what it's worth, on Windows, the mintty terminal (which is the Git Bash terminal on Windows) supports sixel and iterm graphics (https://mintty.github.io/) and Wezterm supports iterm graphics via the wezterm imgcat command.
Another relevant issue: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/1236.
Also, it seems that the symbols format works when previewing with chafa, but the output image is not pretty.
ls image.jpg | fzf --preview 'chafa -s 50x50 -f symbols {}'
man fzf
)Info
Problem / Steps to reproduce
scoop install git wezterm fzf chafa
config.default_prog = { 'c:/users/USERNAME/scoop/apps/git/current/bin/bash.exe -i -l' }
.chafa -f iterm -s 50x50 image.jpg
works correctly.ls image.jpg | fzf --preview 'chafa -s 50x50 {}'
. This results in an empty preview window.The image used for testing is: image.jpg.
I don't know if this is related to this. chafa was recommended over wezterm imgcat this the issue, but I don't know if Wezterm interprets chafa -f iterm as wezterm imgcat.