mcandre / toys

code demos for newbies
https://github.com/mcandre/toys
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research command line file previewers #498

Open mcandre opened 5 months ago

mcandre commented 5 months ago

Useful for browsing files ncurses-graphically over ssh.

For example, render a low rez bitmap of images.

Display text files in the less pager.

Launch URL's in the lynx browser.

Research waveform generators for audio files.

Research ncurses video players.

Default to a hex dumper for the rest of mimetypes.

Alias the command open to this preview application in an SSH variant of the open alias, in the dotfiles repo.