Show HN: Command line tool for viewing files in color
soegaard.github.ioThe tool `peek` show files in color in the terminal. A wide range of popular programming language and file types are supported.
Today I added support for binary files inspired by the HN post on colors in hex editors.
Each supported programming language is backed by its own (reusable) lexer. The lexer provides a stream of tokens to the colorer. Using streams means that you will see the top of large files at once.
The idea to make `peek` came from a need to look at CSS files in the terminal. I wanted color swatches and other niceties from the browser. Also, I wanted an option to fix alignment in machine generated CSS files.
Enjoy.
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