Preview a Image link

[csyJoy]

🚀 The feature, motivation and pitch

I'm not sure if this is a proper feature request, but the lack of preview image functionality in my use of this plugin has forced me to revert back to Obsidian, I know there are other ways to achieve similar functionality, such as using kitty and some of the nvim plugins for image previews, but I think it's a bit heavy handed, and the only functionality I'm looking for is when I come across an image link like ![[image.png]], I can use the same link jump shortcut as gf to open a preview window, once I have this feature, all my work can be done in the terminal ! : )

Alternatives

using kitty + hologram.nvim to preview all image in nvim.

Additional context

My OS is MacOS and I use alacritty as my terminal, so kitty + hologram.nvim solution was not on my mind, in fact I have implemented it in my own work environment using a qlmanage cli tool in macOS, but since this implementation is platform-specific and I don't know if this is a feature needed by other users. So I didn't submit the pr, here's a demonstration video:

https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim/assets/58020450/57d69a2a-6b49-406a-b3ed-dfa856ddbf23

[stelcodes]

Maybe this feature could implemented on Linux by introducing a command that called xdg-open so it could work on both http/s links (opening them in a browser) or images (opening them in an image preview program). Apple has an open command that's similar I believe.

[csyJoy]

Maybe this feature could implemented on Linux by introducing a command that called xdg-open so it could work on both http/s links (opening them in a browser) or images (opening them in an image preview program). Apple has an open command that's similar I believe.

Thanks for your comment, the reason why I use qlmanage not open is open must move your hand to your mouse to close the preview window(or use a complex shortcut), whereas qlmanage gives a more efficient way to close it using Space, I have a slight obsession with pure keyboard use so I choose qlmanage. Maybe it is also a important aspect for choosing preview tool.

[epwalsh]

This is now possible on Mac OS since 47f0074. See the follow_img_func field in the config example in the README.

[csyJoy]

So nice! I can finally return to the main branch : )