terminal graphics support

[markuman]

Basically graphics supports works for me using kitty.
But not in usql 0.19.3. Any ideas?

[dradtke]

I've bumped into this, too. I can get graphics support to work by starting usql like this:

$ usql --set TERM_GRAPHICS=kitty

But none of these seem to work:

$ TERM_GRAPHICS=kitty usql
$ USQL_TERM_GRAPHICS=kitty usql

I also tried putting this in ~/.config/usql/config.yaml, but this doesn't work either:

init: |
  \set USQL_TERM_GRAPHICS kitty
  \set TERM_GRAPHICS kitty

[kenshaw]

What version of usql are you using?

[dradtke]

The latest release, 0.19.3

[kenshaw]

I have not tried usql with Kitty on Windows (instead, I've tested with WezTerm on Windows). I'll spin up a VM and see what the issue is.

[dradtke]

I saw the same issue on Ubuntu, for what it's worth.

[kenshaw]

@dradtke @markuman I forgot that I had disabled term graphics for all the tagged releases, as it's still in a "alpha" mode. The README.md is a bit ambitious in that sense. The next major release (v0.20.0) will have TERM_GRAPHICS support enabled by default. Please install via source (go install github.com/xo/usql@master) if you'd like to test the mode. I do apologize for the confusion here.

The next major release is coming extremely soon™️ and will have some really cool terminal graphics based features/functionality.