lookatme
is an interactive, extensible, terminal-based markdown presentation
tool.
- Markdown rendering
- Live (input file modification time watching) and manual reloading
- Live terminals embedded directly in slides
- Syntax highlighting using Pygments
- Loading external files into code blocks
- Support for contrib extensions
- Smart slide splitting
General tour
Embedded terminal example
Sourcing external files example
Action | Keys | Notes |
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Next Slide | l j right space |
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Prev Slide | h k left delete backspace |
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Quit | q Q |
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Terminal Focus | Click on the terminal | |
Exit Terminal | ctrl+a and then a slide action |
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Vertically scroll within slide | up/down or page up/page down |
Usage: lookatme [OPTIONS] [INPUT_FILES]...
lookatme - An interactive, terminal-based markdown presentation tool.
See https://lookatme.readthedocs.io/en/v{{VERSION}} for documentation
Options:
--debug
-l, --log PATH
-t, --theme [dark|light]
-s, --style [default|emacs|friendly|colorful|autumn|murphy|manni|monokai|perldoc|pastie|borland|trac|native|fruity|bw|vim|vs|tango|rrt|xcode|igor|paraiso-light|paraiso-dark|lovelace|algol|algol_nu|arduino|rainbow_dash|abap|solarized-dark|solarized-light|sas|stata|stata-light|stata-dark|inkpot]
--dump-styles Dump the resolved styles that will be used
with the presentation to stdout
--live, --live-reload Watch the input filename for modifications
and automatically reload
-s, --safe Do not load any new extensions specified in
the source markdown. Extensions specified
via env var or -e are still loaded
--no-ext-warn Load new extensions specified in the source
markdown without warning
-i, --ignore-ext-failure Ignore load failures of extensions
-e, --exts TEXT A comma-separated list of extension names to
automatically load (LOOKATME_EXTS)
--single, --one Render the source as a single slide
--version Show the version and exit.
--help Show this message and exit.
Below is a list of known extensions for lookatme:
Extension Name | Install Name | Notes |
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qrcode | lookatme.contrib.qrcode | Renders QR codes from code blocks |
image_ueberzug | lookatme.contrib.image_ueberzug | Renders images with ueberzug (Linux only) |
render | lookatme.contrib.render | Renders supported code blocks (graphviz and mermaid-js) by calling an external program. requires an image-rendering extension |
See the documentation for details.