Neovim 101 — Image Viewer

The different ways to view images within Neovim.

alpha2phi
4 min readAug 27, 2022
Neovim 101 — Image Viewer

This article is part of the Neovim 101 series.

The Neovim configuration files are available in this repository.

Getting Started

As Neovim users, we want to do everything within Neovim, including viewing images. In this article, let’s explore the different options we have.

telescope-media-files.nvim

telescope-media-files.nvim is a Telescope extension to preview images, pdf, epub, videos, and fonts from Neovim using Telescope.

This plugin works well in Linux using ueberzug. It requires installing other utilities to preview pdf, epubs, videos, and fonts.

telescope-media-files.nvim
  • For macOS, check out this thread.
  • For Windows users, we can use Neovim with WSL

Check out this related article!

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alpha2phi
alpha2phi

Written by alpha2phi

Software engineer, Data Science and ML practitioner.

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