termite VS quick-look-plugins

- you can also rectangular select like in vim, and then press either p (includes LF) or which joins the multiline clipboard text into a single line (removing LF's), that payed off a lot for output like `git status` and wanting to operate on parts of the output (files e.g.)

Have a look at the still young website's documentation here: https://contour-terminal.org/input-modes/#supported-text-obj...

for a more complete look of what you can do with the keyboard (normal mode) :)

[1] https://github.com/thestinger/termite/

Also, regarding VTE, the author of termite (discontinued terminal emulator) expressed similar concerns about the GNOME devs. Apparently, they have little interest in making the library useful to people not working on GNOME apps: https://github.com/thestinger/termite

Termite is obsolete by Alacritty.

I simply do not want to use anything libvte based. And that's what sakura is and termite used to be.

History and experience tells a different story [1]. Never trust a library that is maintained by GNOME.

1.: https://github.com/thestinger/termite

This post by the Termite developer, with respect to VTE, is quite instructive

> https://github.com/thestinger/termite/blob/master/README.rst...

Wow, this confirms a lot of my impressions:

>> In 2012, we submitted a tiny patch exposing the APIs needed for the keyboard text selection, hints mode and other features. Despite support from multiple other projects, the patch was rejected. It's now almost a decade later and no progress has been made. There is no implementation of these kinds of features in VTE and it's unlikely they'll be provided either internally or as flexible APIs. This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to their hostility towards other projects using VTE as a library. GTK and most of the GNOME project are much of the same. Avoid them and don't make the mistake of thinking their libraries are meant for others to use.

This is exactly why sixel-tmux exists as a separate entity!

> Yeah, I read the entire conversation and if sixel support lands in tmux upstream, it would indeed be good news.

I'll keep my fingers crossed, but right now, there seems to be a lot of good will. I will do everything I can.

Welp you need to add your own QL-plugin for these non-standard files. You can start from this list of open source QL-plugins: https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins

The most robust way would probably be to find a new QuickLook extension for videos that replaces Apple's default https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins

Nice! Btw, while we're talking about Quick Look, there's a paid app called Peek on the App Store that is fantastic and worth every penny. It adds QL to hundreds of file formats. And here's a list of PL plug ins on GitHub. It has the Better Zip one, and a super cool one for peeking into app packages called Apparency. Can you tell I like Quick Look? lol

There's this https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins and https://findergg.com

If you know about brew you can also find a bunch of extra quicklook plugins: https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins

Works on and off for some things (video previews for example) but overall worth a quick "brew install" in my opinion.

This is probably the closest alternative: https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins

Since I wanted to try quick look plugins I had to turn it off because I'm using Catalina. Now I just don't know if it turn on alone or if I have to turn it on myself