`lookatme`

lookatme is an interactive, extensible, terminal-based markdown presentation tool.

Features

Markdown rendering
Live (input file modification time watching) and manual reloading
Live terminals embedded directly in slides
Syntax highlighting using Pygments
Loading external files into code blocks
Support for contrib extensions
Smart slide splitting

Tour

General tour

Embedded terminal example

Sourcing external files example

Navigating the Presentation

Action	Keys	Notes
Next Slide	`l j right space`
Prev Slide	`h k left delete backspace`
Quit	`q Q`
Terminal Focus	Click on the terminal
Exit Terminal	`ctrl+a` and then a slide action
Vertically scroll within slide	`up/down or page up/page down`

CLI Options

Usage: lookatme [OPTIONS] [INPUT_FILES]...

  lookatme - An interactive, terminal-based markdown presentation tool.

  See https://lookatme.readthedocs.io/en/v{{VERSION}} for documentation

Options:
  --debug
  -l, --log PATH
  -t, --theme [dark|light]
  -s, --style [default|emacs|friendly|colorful|autumn|murphy|manni|monokai|perldoc|pastie|borland|trac|native|fruity|bw|vim|vs|tango|rrt|xcode|igor|paraiso-light|paraiso-dark|lovelace|algol|algol_nu|arduino|rainbow_dash|abap|solarized-dark|solarized-light|sas|stata|stata-light|stata-dark|inkpot]
  --dump-styles                   Dump the resolved styles that will be used
                                  with the presentation to stdout

  --live, --live-reload           Watch the input filename for modifications
                                  and automatically reload

  -s, --safe                      Do not load any new extensions specified in
                                  the source markdown. Extensions specified
                                  via env var or -e are still loaded

  --no-ext-warn                   Load new extensions specified in the source
                                  markdown without warning

  -i, --ignore-ext-failure        Ignore load failures of extensions
  -e, --exts TEXT                 A comma-separated list of extension names to
                                  automatically load (LOOKATME_EXTS)

  --single, --one                 Render the source as a single slide
  --version                       Show the version and exit.
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Known Extensions

Below is a list of known extensions for lookatme:

Extension Name	Install Name	Notes
qrcode	lookatme.contrib.qrcode	Renders QR codes from code blocks
image_ueberzug	lookatme.contrib.image_ueberzug	Renders images with ueberzug (Linux only)
render	lookatme.contrib.render	Renders supported code blocks (graphviz and mermaid-js) by calling an external program. requires an image-rendering extension

Documentation

See the documentation for details.

lookatmeAn interactive, terminal-based markdown presenter