Open elkowar opened 3 years ago
I think this feature is not necessary to be implemented in exa. Its a feature that already exist in cli file managers like ranger, nnn, etc...
I am not sure if it fits in the project scrope but I can be wrong.
well, file-managers show a single file preview, none that i know of show small thumbnails in the list. Having small thumbnails would be really nice, and make the mentioned TUI filemanagers even more unnecessary. Of course this may be a large feature that may be out-of-scope, but it would still be nice to have
In the blog post implementation of SIXEL by zellij
https://zellij.dev/news/sixel-search-statusbar/ they link to lsix
. My first tough was "nice, but I already use ls
on system that I don't own and exa
on mine, I do not want yet another ls
replacement only for one specific use case".
And instead of finding the option to show images in exa
I found this issue. Maybe exa dev can use the 2 libs created by zellij just for this ? (Everyhting is in rust so... hope this can happen !).
Maybe I will ditch viu
in the process... or use it for full size resolution, this remains to be seen.
One feature I've always wanted from
ls
style programs is the ability to see image previews, similar to how a GUI file explorer would show small thumbnails for images. With standards such as Sixel being more and more popular, doing this should technically be feasible, and Imo would be a perfect fit for exa!