# Is there a way to show preview images in the terminal in the same way the Drracket IDE does?

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**Created:** [December 10, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/is-there-a-way-to-show-preview-images-in-the-terminal-in-the-same-way-the-drracket-ide-does/2588 "2023-12-10T13:54:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 1:54pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/is-there-a-way-to-show-preview-images-in-the-terminal-in-the-same-way-the-drracket-ide-does/2588/1 "2023-12-10T13:54:44Z")

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For exemple, if I write:  
#lang racket  
(require 2htdp/image)

(circle 20 "solid" "blue")

In Drracket, it will preview a bitmap circle in the REPL.  
But using the terminal (with Neovim texteditor) it shows:

(object:image% ... ...)

I really like using neovim and vim motions, so I'd like to have this kind of feature on the terminal.

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**Post date:** [December 10, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/is-there-a-way-to-show-preview-images-in-the-terminal-in-the-same-way-the-drracket-ide-does/2588/2 "2023-12-10T15:32:37Z")

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In a terminal, you need to set the print handler to show images in a GUI. One such version is

```scheme
(define (make-pict-print-handler)
(dynamic-require 'racket/gui #f) ;; or show-pict might not work
(define old-handler (current-print))
(define (new-handler v)
(old-handler
(if (pict? v) (show-pict v) v)))
new-handler)

(current-print (make-pict-print-handler))

```

This is for picts but could probably be easily adjusted for 2hdtp/image.