lookatme

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

TOC

• TOC
• Features
  • Tour
• Navigating the Presentation
• CLI Options
• Known Extensions
• Documentation

Features

• Markdown rendering
• Built-in tutorial slides lookatme --tutorial
• 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
• Progressive slides with <!-- stop --> comments between block elements

Tutorial

pip install --upgrade lookatme
lookatme --tutorial

NOTE: lookatme 3.0 is nearing completion! Check out the latest release candidate with: pip install --upgrade --pre lookatme. Be warned, version 3.0 may not be as stable and contains breaking changes (mostly with styles) from previous major versions.

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
  --tutorial TEXT                 As a flag: show all tutorials. With a
                                  value/comma-separated values: show the
                                  specific tutorials. Use the value 'help' for
                                  more help
  -t, --theme [dark|light]
  --style [default|emacs|friendly|friendly_grayscale|colorful|autumn|murphy|manni|material|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|staroffice|stata|stata-light|stata-dark|inkpot|zenburn|gruvbox-dark|gruvbox-light|dracula|one-dark|lilypond|nord|nord-darker|github-dark]
  --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.