reddio VS sixel-tmux

https://gitlab.com/aaronNG/reddio looks like it might be a decent, maintained alternative.

Which one? There's cortex and cReddit and reddio and rttt and rtv and tuir.

I just found https://gitlab.com/aaronNG/reddio.

For websites, I use an extension called LibreJS to block nonfree JavaScript. It seems that most sites work without nonfree JavaScript, though sometimes you have to explicitly block the site in LibreJS to force noscript tags to appear. It's hard to say for sure how many sites require nonfree JavaScript though, as since I don't tend to re-visit sites that require it, all the sites I regularly use work without nonfree nontrivial JavaScript. Often LibreJS doesn't detect free scripts as free so I have to mark them myself, but on most sites I don't need to do this (On Reddit specifically, there's one script that LibreJS marks as nontrivial, $(this).parent().submit(), but I consider that trivial myself because it's so short. I also use Reddit Enhancement Suite which might make some things work better too. Occasionally the site breaks for some reason, in which case I use reddio (git clone the URL to avoid JavaScript).). I also use an extension called LibRedirect which redirects some sites that require JavaScript to some that don't. For email I still use Google from before I was avoiding nonfree software, but I connect using a free software IMAP client.

I'm on my phone right now, so I'm using Slide (a 3-rd party reddit client), but on PC I usually use reddio.

Technically speaking, this may be true, but most of the scripts I have enabled are trivial scripts. The only whitelisted script (on this page) I have currently is $(this).parent().submit() (needed for submitting comments). I think triviality is subjective to some extent, and I consider that whitelisted script trivial. I also use Reddit Enhancement Suite and I think that might help with some things that would otherwise require nonfree JavaScript. For some reason, old.reddit sometimes doesn't let me interact (expand comments, post comments, upvote, join the subreddit), and I'm not sure why it sometimes doesn't work (seems to break more often on posts than permalinks to comments or subreddit pages), but in those cases I can use reddio (git clone that link to avoid GitLab's JS).

My understanding is that the Reddit client used to be free, but it isn't anymore. I think there is no way to create an account on Reddit using free software today, but you can post/comment using reddio (git clone it to avoid nonfree JS) or sometimes using RES + LibreJS and whitelisting a few simple scripts (e.g. $(this).parent().submit() at the simplest). Given that it is possible to use Reddit with free software if you already have an account, I think it is okay to keep using it. It would be good if someone added account registration functionality to reddio though, so that more people could participate.

there's also reddio

Of course this exists

It's not really that strange that tmux doesn't support sixels. It's quite a bit more complicated and resource-intensive than ANSI Escape Codes or ncurses.

It might be fine for local[1] multiplexing but over the network it is not as fast as even something like VNC or RDP.

[1] https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/

After having spent too much time trying to get the simple https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/ features into mainline tmux (last November https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/3753), maybe it'd be easier to jump ship as use zellij?

Could anyone offer recommendations on "riced" zellij configuations, or just a demo where it shows doing with (say charts of disk usage per folder), watching a movie with mpv + keeping a vim to type on?

Your approach looks very sound!

A fork of terminfo may be needed if the description of modern terminal capabilities can't be added -- or if old and deprecated attributes repurposed for that job (like in your padding example): if you're automating the correction/creation of terminfos in ~/, IMHO, it may be better to piggyback on tic as much as possible.

Anyway, to backport modern terminal descriptions to legacy programs, creating correct binary terminfos in ~/.terminfo seems the best practice. You can also invent new TERM. When I wanted to have italics etc about everywhere, personally that's just what I did for sixel-tmux: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/?tab=readme-ov-file#ste... : just declare a new $TERM you know to be right, and use that in the apps that let you use a little logic in their configuration file

I do that in my .vimrc:

   " If Vim doesn't know the escape codes to switch to italic

You can have that functionality integrated within tmux with https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/ : if you terminal doesn't support sixels, you'll at least see something close to the picture they represent.

Then of course it's not pixel-perfect unless you make your terminal very large (like 800x240 instead of 80x24) but something being better than nothing, I'd argue it's for the better if all you can do is 80x24 with no pictures otherwise.

sixel-tmux can help you have both: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/

See also rant[1] of sixel-tmux author.

> It's 2021, and we should be able to do litterate programming in the console, with full graphical support.

Yeah. We are stuck cosplaying computers from the sixties.

What's even funnier, even if you find a modern terminal emulator that supports features like ligatures, graphics, emoji etc. you still will be blocked by tmux. Sure - not everyone needs tmux. If you never work on remote machines, you can live without it.

But I work on remote machines all the time. I also use Kakoune text editor that defers window management to external tools (WM or tmux, but to be honest, tmux is much better). Zellij is more of r/unixporn bait than usable tool for now. So I'm stuck with text only interface.

[1]: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/main/RANTS.md

> Some terminal emulators have support for images, which fit most of the use cases here but not the one I described.

That what sixel-tmux is for, when you're in a hurry and needs images with your current terminal emulator: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux

Maybe tmux-sixel does that tmux sixel

If you want some crazy shit like sixels or italics and ligatures, try msys2 that's what I've used for the screenshot. The only thing comparable on Linux in term of features is xterm and, that's another story.