bergtholdt/telescope-media-files.nvim

Telescope extension to preview media files using Ueberzug.

Telescope-media-files.nvim

Preview images, pdf, epub, video, and fonts from Neovim using Telescope.

Install

Plug 'nvim-lua/popup.nvim'
Plug 'nvim-lua/plenary.nvim'
Plug 'nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim'
Plug 'nvim-telescope/telescope-media-files.nvim'

Setup

require('telescope').load_extension('media_files')

Configuration

This extension can be configured using extensions field inside Telescope setup function.

require'telescope'.setup {
  extensions = {
    media_files = {
      -- filetypes whitelist
      -- defaults to {"png", "jpg", "mp4", "webm", "pdf"}
      filetypes = {"png", "webp", "jpg", "jpeg"},
      -- find command (defaults to `fd`)
      find_cmd = "rg"
    }
  },
}

Available commands

:Telescope media_files

"Using lua function
lua require('telescope').extensions.media_files.media_files()

When you press <CR> on a selected file, it will copy its relative path to the clipboard

Prerequisites

• Chafa (required for image support)
• ImageMagick (optional, for svg previews)
• fd / rg / find or fdfind in Ubuntu/Debian.
• ffmpegthumbnailer (optional, for video preview support)
• pdftoppm (optional, for pdf preview support. Available in the AUR as poppler package.)
• epub-thumbnailer (optional, for epub preview support.)
• fontpreview (optional, for font preview support)

credit to https://github.com/cirala/vifmimg