Hello, as a Vim/Mutt user fascinated by 'powerful' console programs, I got the inspiration to write a 'scriptable image viewer' for the Linux Framebuffer device. I post this email here, as I think it could be interesting for Vim and Mutt users. I started modifying an existing free software program (fbi, an image viewer for the Linux Framebuffer device) to gain a Vim-inspired version out of it (with Normal and Command Line modes, autocommands, regexps, rc file, etc..), called Fbi IMproved. Here follows the Fim description from the README file: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FIM aims to be a highly customizable and scriptable image viewer targeted at the users who are confortable with software like the Vim text editor or the Mutt mail user agent. It is based on the Fbi image viewer, by Gerd Hoffmann, and works in the Linux framebuffer console ( so, it is not an X program! ). It is capable of regular expressions based (on filename) image viewing, vim-like autocommands, it offers GNU readline command line autocompletion and history, completely customizable key bindings, external/internal (if-while based) scriptability (through return codes, standard input/output, and commands given at invocation time, initialization file), and much more. However, it still needs some (power) user response to resolve some points about the core functionalities, and a thorough configuration/ installation testing. FIM is free software, and it ships under the GPL software license, complete with documentation, in form of a doc/FIM.TXT documentation file, a man page, lots of comments in the (sometimes still dirty) code, and some text files. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Right now I think Fim is quite mature for a wider audience, for testing and bugcatching exposure, so I present it here in this mailing list. Fim has an official home page [1], an unofficial one [2], a documentation file [3] (and more files), and a mailing list [4]. [1] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fbi-improved [2] http://www.autistici.org/dezperado [3] http://www.autistici.org/dezperado/FIM.TXT [4] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fbi-improved-devel Regards, Michele
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