please add browsing images

[letarg0]

like gqview

[hzeller]

The closest to browsing images is so far the recently added grid mode. With --grid=3 you can for instance arrange images more compactly on the screen. If you add --title you can see the associated filenames.

But it is not interactive. That sounds like something useful: selecting an image and showing an enlarged version in a separate area.

[tombh]

timg --grid=3 *.jpg|less is almost there, but the scrolling breaks

[hzeller]

interesting. Looke like less can't deal with the grid layout as the output to the terminal writing one image at a time, then jumping back up and to the right and then doing the next image. The -R option sanitizes the cursor jumps away.

The default behavior is useful for regular terminal output in which we want images to show as soon as they are loaded, but maybe it would make sense in the cases of output not being a terminal to render each row first then output.

Note, for anyone reading this: to make less work at all with timg, you'd need the -R option to output raw escape sequences. (it sanitizes to not include cursor jump commands, so grid will shown one after another):

timg --grid=3 *.jpg | less -R

The lowercase -r option also outputs cursor jump commands and would actually allow to show the grid output, but then scrolling up will break

timg --grid=3 *.jpg | less -r

[xeruf]

In kitty, less -R only displays text while less -r displays the images but allows no scrollback :/

[Sonico98]

How about implementing hyperlink support, like how coreutils ls does? That way it would be possible to use the already existing grid functionality, and each file would be clickeable. The only requirement would be to use a terminal that supports hyperlinks