gloss#

A visual pager for the terminal: like less, for images, SVGs, PDFs, STL and 3MF meshes, Markdown, HTML, plain text, JSON, Jupyter notebooks, Word, Excel, Grist, and CSV files.

Try it in your browser → The live terminal runs the actual Go pager as WebAssembly, with one sample of every kind.

Quick start#

brew install --cask nimblemarkets/tap/gloss

gloss photo.png report.pdf model.stl      # page through them
gloss --menu *.png                        # a menu to choose among files
gloss --page 3 --output page3.png report.pdf   # a PNG, with no terminal
gloss --info --json model.3mf             # what a file says about itself

Where to look#

  • Guide: installing, the keys, asking the user for a file, the formats gloss opens and their limits, and how to use it from an agent.
  • Command reference: every option, grouped by what it is for. gloss has no subcommands; it is one command with clusters of options.
  • For LLMs: the skill gloss carries to teach an agent its headless surface (gloss skill).

The man page, gloss(1), ships in the release archives and the Debian package.

Source#

gloss is MIT-licensed and built in Go on NTCharts. The source, issues, and releases are on GitHub.