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mistakenelf / fm

A terminal based file manager
MIT License
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Previewing gif #88

Open mrusme opened 2 years ago

mrusme commented 2 years ago

Previewing a gif breaks the UI. Would it be possible to use something like chafa for previewing it? Chafa can play it and it should be possible to pipe its output into fm, I believe.

mistakenelf commented 2 years ago

I had actually thought about previewing gifs and was hoping that maybe gifs could be rendered as ASCII characters

mrusme commented 2 years ago

There are a handful of Go libs that can do that, e.g..

mistakenelf commented 2 years ago

This looks awesome. Will give it a go