Preview Plugin

August 16, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

Renders bounded terminal previews without extracting archives or modifying files.

  • Text and Markdown use bat when available, with a safe built-in text fallback.
  • Images use chafa when available, with a metadata fallback.
  • ZIP and tar-family archives are listed via unzip/tar; uncompressed ZIP and tar files also have built-in listing fallbacks.
lla plugin run preview show -- README.md
lla plugin run preview show -- src/main.rs -- --lines 80
lla plugin run preview show -- screenshot.png
lla plugin run preview show -- release.tar.gz
lla plugin run preview backends