crpreview

Previews files and directories in the terminal. Built work with the lf file manager.

Features

crpreview can preview the following formats:

File type	Tool
archives1	libarchive
markdown	glow
images	chafa
pdf	pdftoppm
text	bat
directories	exa

Requirements

All of the above mentioned preview tools which you want to use.

Installation

MacOS

Install directly from my brew tap:

$ brew install RisGar/tap/crpreview

FreeBSD

Download the lastest FreeBSD build archive from Cirrus CI and add it to a directory in your $PATH.

Ubuntu

Download the lastest Ubuntu build archive from GitHub and add it to a directory in your $PATH.

From source (Other Unix systems)

1. Build the executable using `make``
2. Copy the path to this working directory on your system`
3. Install libarchive and ensure $CC or pkg-config can access them.

Usage

Add the following lines to your lfrc:

set previewer /path/to/crpreview/bin/crpreview
map i $ /path/to/crpreview/bin/crpreview $f | less -R

Make sure to install the required decompressors for libarchive to list archive contents.

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/your-github-user/crpreview/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Rishab Garg - creator and maintainer

Footnotes

1. Supported formats: tar, 7-zip, zip, bzip, bzip2, gunzip, xz, zstd, lzip, lrzip ↩