✨ Feature: Plans to support new Neovim Image API?

[ymic9963]

🔖 Feature description:

Hi! Love the plugin and thank you very much for the continued development. Are you aware that Neovim are creating an image API to display images natively within the terminal? Any plans on supporting it through Markview? This is the main issue on it but there are some more issues as well. It's already on the nightly builds.

neovim/neovim#30889

📂 Possible solutions:

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🧾 Feature reference:

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[OXY2DEV]

yes, I am aware of the API.

However, I don't think image preview can be added at the moment because,

• It only supports .png files at the moment.
• Absolute file paths doesn't seem to work.
• No out-of-the-box way to show images from links.

I am also not sure how image previews should be shown as they ca only be pinned to a spot on the screen so no inline previews. If it doesn't change in the future, we will probably only have hover preview for image.

I think I will wait for the API to be fleshed out a bit more before implementing it.

[ymic9963]

Thanks for the response. Your approach makes sense and I look forward to see how you implement it!