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A fast file previewer for the terminal.

Works with both plain-text and binary files, such as images, PDFs, and executables.

Designed for use with terminal file managers like lf and ranger, but usable from the command line as well.

Included is also a nvim config made for robust and beautiful syntax-highlighting for every file type you will ever encounter for use with nvimpager.

Usage

From the command line:

prev $FILE_TO_PREVIEW

In your lf config:

set previewer prev

Installation

sudo make install

Dependencies:

• nvimpager (for better highlighting integration with nvim configs)
• chafa
• ffmpegthumbnailer
• mediainfo
• djvulibre
• pandoc
• p7zip
• libcdio
• unzip
• jq
• libreoffice