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https://github.com/maaslalani/slides

Terminal based presentation tool
https://github.com/maaslalani/slides

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# Slides



Slides in your terminal.





  Slides Presentation




### Installation

[![Homebrew](https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json.svg?url=https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/slides.json&query=$.versions.stable&label=homebrew)](https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/slides)

[![Snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/slides/badge.svg)](https://snapcraft.io/slides)

[![AUR](https://img.shields.io/aur/version/slides?label=AUR)](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/slides)



Instructions



#### MacOS

```

brew install slides

```

#### Arch

```

yay -S slides

```

#### Nixpkgs (unstable)

```

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.slides

```

#### Any Linux Distro running `snapd`

```

sudo snap install slides

```

#### Go

```

go install github.com/maaslalani/slides@latest

```

From source:

```

git clone https://github.com/maaslalani/slides.git

cd slides

go install

```



You can also download a binary from the [releases](https://github.com/maaslalani/slides/releases) page.



### Usage

Create a simple markdown file that contains your slides:



````markdown

# Welcome to Slides

A terminal based presentation tool



---



## Everything is markdown

In fact, this entire presentation is a markdown file.



---



## Everything happens in your terminal

Create slides and present them without ever leaving your terminal.



---



## Code execution

```go

package main



import "fmt"



func main() {

  fmt.Println("Execute code directly inside the slides")

}

```



You can execute code inside your slides by pressing ``,

the output of your command will be displayed at the end of the current slide.



---



## Pre-process slides



You can add a code block with three tildes (`~`) and write a command to run *before* displaying

the slides, the text inside the code block will be passed as `stdin` to the command

and the code block will be replaced with the `stdout` of the command.



```

~~~graph-easy --as=boxart

[ A ] - to -> [ B ]

~~~

```



The above will be pre-processed to look like:



┌───┐  to   ┌───┐

│ A │ ────> │ B │

└───┘       └───┘



For security reasons, you must pass a file that has execution permissions

for the slides to be pre-processed. You can use `chmod` to add these permissions.



```bash

chmod +x file.md

```



````



Checkout the [example slides](https://github.com/maaslalani/slides/tree/main/examples).



Then, to present, run:

```

slides presentation.md

```



If given a file name, `slides` will automatically look for changes in the file and update the presentation live.



`slides` also accepts input through `stdin`:

```

curl http://example.com/slides.md | slides

```



Go to the first slide with the following key sequence:

* g g



Go to the next slide with any of the following key sequences:

* space

* right

* down

* enter

* n

* j

* l

* Page Down

* number + any of the above (go forward n slides)



Go to the previous slide with any of the following key sequences:

* left

* up

* p

* h

* k

* N

* Page Up

* number + any of the above (go back n slides)



Go to a specific slide with the following key sequence:



* number + G



Go to the last slide with the following key:



* G



### Search



To quickly jump to the right slide, you can use the search function.



Press /, enter your search term and press Enter  

(*The search term is interpreted as a regular expression. The `/i` flag causes case-insensitivity.*).



Press ctrl+n after a search to go to the next search result.



### Code Execution



If slides finds a code block on the current slides it can execute the code block and display the result as virtual text

on the screen.



Press ctrl+e on a slide with a code block to execute it and display the result.



### Pre-processing



You can add a code block with three tildes (`~`) and write a command to run

*before* displaying the slides, the text inside the code block will be passed

as `stdin` to the command and the code block will be replaced with the `stdout`

of the command. Wrap the pre-processed block in three backticks to keep

proper formatting and new lines.



````

```

~~~graph-easy --as=boxart

[ A ] - to -> [ B ]

~~~

```

````



The above will be pre-processed to look like:



```

┌───┐  to   ┌───┐

│ A │ ────> │ B │

└───┘       └───┘

```



For security reasons, you must pass a file that has execution permissions

for the slides to be pre-processed. You can use `chmod` to add these permissions.



```bash

chmod +x file.md

```



### Configuration



`slides` allows you to customize your presentation's look and feel with metadata at the top of your `slides.md`.



> This section is entirely optional, `slides` will use sensible defaults if this section or any field in the section is omitted.



```yaml

---

theme: ./path/to/theme.json

author: Gopher

date: MMMM dd, YYYY

paging: Slide %d / %d

---

```



* `theme`: Path to `json` file containing a [glamour

  theme](https://github.com/charmbracelet/glamour/tree/master/styles), can also

  be a link to a remote `json` file which slides will fetch before presenting.

* `author`: A `string` to display on the bottom-left corner of the presentation

  view. Defaults to the OS current user's full name. Can be empty to hide the author.

* `date`: A `string` that is used to format today's date in the `YYYY-MM-DD` format. If the date is not a valid

  format, the string will be displayed. Defaults to `YYYY-MM-DD`.

* `paging`: A `string` that contains 0 or more `%d` directives. The first `%d`

  will be replaced with the current slide number and the second `%d` will be

  replaced with the total slides count. Defaults to `Slide %d / %d`.

  You will need to surround the paging value with quotes if it starts with `%`.



#### Date format



Given the date _January 02, 2006_:



| Value  | Translates to |

|--------|---------------|

| `YYYY` | 2006          |

| `YY`   | 06            |

| `MMMM` | January       |

| `MMM`  | Jan           |

| `MM`   | 01            |

| `mm`   | 1             |

| `DD`   | 02            |

| `dd`   | 2             |



### SSH



Slides is accessible over `ssh` if hosted on a machine through the `slides

serve [file]` command.



On a machine, run:



```

slides serve [file]

```



Then, on another machine (or same machine), `ssh` into the port specified by

the `slides serve [file]` command:

```

ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 53531

```



You will be able to access the presentation hosted over SSH! You can use this

to present with `slides` from a computer that doesn't have `slides` installed,

but does have `ssh`. Or, let your viewers have access to the slides on their

own computer without needing to download `slides` and the presentation file.



### Alternatives



**Credits**: This project was heavily inspired by [`lookatme`](https://github.com/d0c-s4vage/lookatme).



* [`lookatme`](https://github.com/d0c-s4vage/lookatme)

* [`sli.dev`](https://sli.dev/)

* [`sent`](https://tools.suckless.org/sent/)

* [`presenterm`](https://github.com/mfontanini/presenterm)



### Development

See the [development documentation](./docs/development)