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Does anyone know if the inline images/videos are implemented as terminal escapes. I.e. can you

   find | xargs tycat | less

and scroll around with the data? Can it work remotely?

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It's done using escape codes (\033}). tycat/tyls/ty* only outputs escape codes. Terminology handles them and display the images…

In tycat.c, you can see some code like: if (mode == CENTER) snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%c}ic#%i;%i;%s", 0x1b, w, h, path);

Because the path is given, it won't work remotely.

find | xargs tycat should work but doesn't (one more bug to fix :D ).

Given that you can communicate two ways with terminals using escape codes, you might be able to run your remote shell with something like

  tyserver bash

and tyserver could then say replace escape-w-h-path with an escape-w-h-file-descriptor-n which would then allow the remote side to async query for the contents of fd-n with an escape-read-fd-n-bytes while you continue to interact with the terminal.

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