Slides

Slides in your terminal.

Installation

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 page.

Usage

Create a simple markdown file that contains your slides:

# 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 `<C-e>`,
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.

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 next slide with any of the following keys:

• space
• right
• down
• enter
• n
• j
• l

Go to the previous slide with any of the following keys:

• left
• up
• p
• h
• k

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.

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.

---
theme: ./path/to/theme.json
author: Gopher
date: January 2, 2006
paging: Slide %d / %d
---

• theme: Path to json file containing a glamour theme, 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 form 2006-01-02. If the date is not a valid form of 2006-01-02 the contents of the string will be displayed. Defaults to 2006-01-02.
• 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.

Alternatives

Credits: This project was heavily inspired by lookatme.

• lookatme
• sli.dev
• sent

Development

See the development documentation