rich-preview.yazi

Preview file types using rich command in Yazi. This plugin allows preview for various filetypes including -

• Markdown
• Jupyter notebook
• JSON
• CSV
• RestructuredText

Previews/Screenshots

rich-preview1.webm

Requirements

• Yazi v25.4.8 or higher.
• rich-cli v13.7.1 or higher.

Installation

To install this plugin, simply run-

ya pkg add AnirudhG07/rich-preview
## For linux and MacOS
git clone https://github.com/AnirudhG07/rich-preview.yazi.git ~/.config/yazi/plugins/rich-preview.yazi

## For Windows
git clone https://github.com/AnirudhG07/rich-preview.yazi.git %AppData%\yazi\config\plugins\rich-preview.yazi

Usages

The rich commands automatically detects if the file is markdown, csv, json, etc. files and accordingly the preview is viewed.

Add the below to your yazi.toml file to allow the respective file to previewed using rich.

[plugin]

prepend_previewers = [
    { name = "*.csv", run = "rich-preview"}, # for csv files
    { name = "*.md", run = "rich-preview" }, # for markdown (.md) files
    { name = "*.rst", run = "rich-preview"}, # for restructured text (.rst) files
    { name = "*.ipynb", run = "rich-preview"}, # for jupyter notebooks (.ipynb)
    { name = "*.json", run = "rich-preview"}, # for json (.json) files
#    { name = "*.lang_type", run = "rich-preview"} # for particular language files eg. .py, .go., .lua, etc.
]

Configurations

If you would like to use rich with more configurations, you can go to init.lua and edit the arguments in the code with your preferences. You can view the options using rich --help.

-- init.lua
"-j",
"--left",
"--line-numbers",
"--force-terminal",
"--panel=rounded",
"--guides",
"--max-width" -- to area of preview

You can add more, remove and choose themes as you wish. You can set styles or Themes(as mentioned in rich --help) by --theme=your_theme and similarly for style.

Notes

Currently the colors maynot be uniformly present, along with weird lines here and there. This is due to "--force-terminal" option. You can disable it if you find it annoying. Work is in progress to possibly fix the issue.

Using piper.yazi

piper.yazi is a general-purpose previewer - you can pass any shell command to piper and it will use the command's output as the preview content.

To use rich with piper, you can add this in your yazi.toml file:

[[plugin.prepend_previewers]]
name = "*.md"
run  = 'piper -- rich -j --left --panel=rounded --guides --line-numbers --force-terminal "$1"'

Note you can also add other filetypes as mentioned above in the same format.

Explore Yazi

Yazi is an amazing, blazing fast terminal file manager, with a variety of plugins, flavors and themes. Check them out at awesome-yazi and the official yazi webpage.