text-minimap - Generate text minimap/preview using Braille Patterns

Library and command-line utility to efficiently generate minimap/preview of a given text.

Status

• [x] Efficient io and streaming
• [x] Multiple scaling settings
• [ ] Tab (\t) width support
• [ ] Soft-wrapping on text-width support
• [ ] C API

Alternatives

• wfxr/code-minimap - seems also written in Rust and with more effort put into it, so you probably should prefer it over this project; probably - I had no time to check the details myself;

Installing

If you don't have rust compiler and cargo installed follow instructions on https://www.rustup.rs/ .

Afterwards:

cargo install text-minimap

Using

Check text-minimap --help output.

Verification Recommendation

To help with the maintaince, the ownership of this crate is potentially shared between multiple developers. It is recommend to always use cargo-crev to verify trustworthiness of each of your dependencies, including this one.