vim-graphical-preview vs asciiMol

vim-graphical-preview

Small plugin for Vim to display graphics with SIXEL characters (by bytesnake)

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asciiMol

Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for terminals. (by dewberryants)

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vim-graphical-preview		asciiMol
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7	Mentions	5
191	Stars	350
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	2.8
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	12 months ago
Rust	Language	Python
MIT License	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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vim-graphical-preview

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-graphical-preview. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.

How would you work effectively with an extremely slow 56Kbps connection?
12 projects | /r/linux | 5 Dec 2023

sixel can let you do latex math in vim with a few commands. Other image formats require much more effort!
View images when SSH
4 projects | /r/neovim | 9 May 2023

There are ways - the keyword is sixel - for example https://github.com/bytesnake/vim-graphical-preview
Boot to Vim, Vim as PID 1
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2023

[resistance is futile](https://github.com/bytesnake/vim-graphical-preview)
Vim graphical preview of LaTex equations and pictures
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2023
Display graphics in (N)Vim, made possible by Rust and SIXELs
3 projects | /r/rust | 30 Aug 2022
Display graphics in (N)Vim with SIXEL characters
1 project | /r/vim | 5 Apr 2022
Displaying graphics in (N)Vim: yes you can write vim plugins in Rust
1 project | /r/rust | 5 Apr 2022

asciiMol

Posts with mentions or reviews of asciiMol. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.

How would you work effectively with an extremely slow 56Kbps connection?
12 projects | /r/linux | 5 Dec 2023

Eventually I'll explore also the Mosh shell to deal with connection instabilities, but so far a disconnect would not cause any data loss, I just have to reconnect and Tmux will resume everything. Heck, I've even gone as far as visualizing molecules in 3D with ASCII MOL (https://github.com/dewberryants/asciiMol).
GitHub - dewberryants/asciiMol: Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for linux terminals.
1 project | /r/Python | 8 Mar 2022
Hacker News top posts: Mar 8, 2022
4 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 8 Mar 2022

AsciiMol: Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for Linux terminals\ (3 comments)
asciiMol: Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for Linux terminals
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2022
AsciiMol: Curses based ASCII molecule viewer for Linux terminals
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vim-graphical-preview and asciiMol you can also consider the following projects:

hologram.nvim - 👻 A cross platform terminal image viewer for Neovim. Extensible and fast, written in Lua and C. Works on macOS and Linux.

buffet - All-inclusive Buffer for C

mupdf - mupdf mirror

aizynthfinder - A tool for retrosynthetic planning

dtach - A simple program that emulates the detach feature of screen

clib - Package manager for the C programming language.

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

PubChemPy - Python wrapper for the PubChem PUG REST API.

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

jpeg-sandbox - Interactively edit individual DCT blocks in any JPEG image in the browser.

cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library

ScaffoldGraph - ScaffoldGraph is an open-source cheminformatics library, built using RDKit and NetworkX, for the generation and analysis of scaffold networks and scaffold trees.