ellisonleao / glow.nvim

A markdown preview directly in your neovim.

glow.nvim's Issues

Glow Preview completely blank in Powershell

Describe the bug
I try running :Glow on Windows with Powershell 7.1.3 but the popup window is completely blank.

If I go into insert mode in the floating window and press enter I get the message An unknown element "" was received. This can happen if the remote process closed or ended abnormally

Weirdly enough, it works perfectly well with the original cmd shell.

While this plugin probably doesn't have Windows too high on its compatibility list, I would appreciate any help.

To Reproduce
Set the shell to pwsh or powershell
Run :Glow

Expected behavior
There will be a markdown preview in the pop up window

Additional context
Neovim Version: NVIM v0.5.0-dev+1233
OS: Windows 10
Terminal: Windows Terminal 1.8.14444.0

highlights

When i first opened glow floating window it looked like this

By adjusting NormalFloat highlight group i can change background and border colors of a floating window, but i can not figure out how to change text color, can you advice me if possible how to change it?

Compatibility with Nvim nightly (v0.5) ?

:GlowInstall does absolutely nothing on NVIM v0.5.0-828-g0a95549d6
Maybe i am missing something?

[feature request] create a preview vertically splitted to left or right.

would be very nice to have it right in the right/left side.
would very nice a fresh new reload after buffer save.

Error occurred during installation on Windows

Description

When running :PlugInstall to install the plugin, I encountered this error:
E5108: Error executing lua Vim:E903: Process failed to start: no such file or directory: "/bin/bash"

Environment

OS: Windows 10
Nvim: v0.5.0-828-g0a95549d6

better handling of glow installation

Current instalation is broken. The basic steps now are:

git clone https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow.git
cd glow
go build && mv glow $GOPATH/bin

Feature: Open new split window to preview side-by-side

It will be great to have an option when we could open MD file in the new split (or just a new buffer) and observe live changes (not sure if it's doable with Glow tho)

Magenta background

Hey! Trying out glow, but for some reason the background is magenta. It's persisent across both the built in light and dark theme and other colour schemes for my terminal. Any ideas why? Here's a screenshot. Using neovim on arch. Terminal is alacritty.

[Suggestion] Simple Latex preview support

Hi, I love your plugin, but is there a future to add support for Latex preview? Like:
$\vec{v}$
$\theta$

Thanks.

add CONTRIBUTING file

Installation isn't working on macOS

I've followed the instructions from the readme (using vim-plug) and installation fails:

tar: Error opening archive: Unrecognized archive format

[Process exited 1]

If I try to run :Glow after it says it's not installed, and to run :GlowInstall, which gives me the error above as well. I noticed locally in the folder I was in, there's a glow.tar.gz file, but it doesn't seem to be a proper tar file, hence the error:

~ ls -la
-rw-r--r--  1 omar  staff     9B Jul  1 13:42 glow.tar.gz

~ file glow.tar.gz
glow.tar.gz: ASCII text, with no line terminators

~ cat glow.tar.gz
Not Found%

[vim-plug] Not an editor command: GlowInstall

Hey, so I tried installing this with vim-plug and I'm getting a E492 when trying to run GlowInstall

My nvim is v0.6.0

Make border lines customizable

Glow window colors are messed, depending on user colorscheme

Preview window with onehalfdark colorscheme

Preview window with badwolf colorscheme

nvim version: 0.5.0 stable
OS: fedora 40
plugin commit: 794649f

licensing/copyright question

Hey I made a markdown preview plugin inspired by glow.nvim: https://github.com/p00f/mdpreview.nvim

It uses the same path expansion and floating window logic as glow.nvim so I licensed it under MIT giving you copyright:
https://github.com/p00f/mdpreview.nvim/blob/main/LICENSE#L3

and credited you in the readme:
https://github.com/p00f/mdpreview.nvim#credits

Is this enough?

Unable to use glow.nvim in tmux

When use neovim in tmux, :Glow gets an empty preview window

:GlowInstall [Process exited 2]

Describe the bug
I do :GlowInstall and it gives me an error

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Using the paq package manager

1. Go to init.lua
2. Add

paq {'npxbr/glow.nvim', run=function() vim.cmd ':GlowInstall' end, branch='main'}

3. Do :PaqInstall
4. Get Error
5. Try doing :GlowInstall manually, still get error.

Expected behavior
Glow installs successfully!

Additional context
Neovim Version: NVIM v0.5.0-dev+1330
Distro: Arch Linux
Terminal: Windows Terminal (Using WSL2)

paq-nvim installation fails

Whenever i try to install glow.nvim with paq-nvim, it simply doesn't works, there's no error output, i'm unable to run both :GlowInstall and :Glow, they give no output at all, my plugins.lua file is like this at the moment:

require 'paq' {
    {'npxbr/glow.nvim', opt = true, run = vim.cmd('GlowInstall')};
}

Does glow supports paq-nvim or only packer?

Toggle the glow window?

Hi, cool plugin!

Is there a way to toggle the preview window?

new config system

Only show '[Process exited 139]'

when i use :Glow it only shows [Process exited 139]

Open preview window in same cursor line

The idea here is to get the current cursor position and when you call :Glow command, the floating window will still keep that position over there

Map <ESC> close_window?

Hi,
Glow window can be closed by q. https://github.com/npxbr/glow.nvim/blob/main/lua/glow.lua#L129

Maybe it's a good idea of mapping <ESC> to close_window.

  api.nvim_buf_set_keymap(buf, "n", "<ESC>", ":lua require('glow').close_window()<cr>",
                          {noremap = true, silent = true})

Blank output

Hi I installed the plugin and :Glow gives me a blank floating window

Could not install plugin with Plug

Following the readme, i put the following line in my plug.vim

Plug 'ellisonleao/glow.nvim', {'do': ':GlowInstall', 'branch': 'main'}

After running PlugInstall, I got the following error:

nvim version: 0.5.0 stable
OS: fedora 40
plugin commit: 794649f

Question about hover

Hi! Thank you for the aweome plugin. I have a question about usage. Is it possible to use to for hover and diagnostic LSP messages? It uses markdown, but built-in Markdown renderer in Neovim is not good :)

glow.nvim depende go to be update

I can't update without installing go
but this dependence does not mention in Redme

nvim failed to call cmd a nil value

The Details

I just installed this plugin by doing

git clone https://github.com/npxbr/glow.nvim.git ~/.vim/pack/npxbr/start/glow.nvim

I am also running Neovim 0.4.4 via apt packages. However,now when I start Neovim, I get the following error.

Error detected while processing /home/filbot/.vim/pack/npxbr/start/glow.nvim/plugin/glow.vim:                                                                                                                                                                                 
line    6:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
E5105: Error while calling lua chunk: /home/filbot/.vim/pack/npxbr/start/glow.nvim/lua/glow.lua:67: attempt to call field 'cmd' (a nil value)

The glow command is in my PATH and able to be ran.

Make preview window scrollable

It seems like :Glow floating window only shows end of rendered output (depending on window size) and does not allow to scroll its content as pressing any button just closes the window (it always prints [Process exited 0] at the bottom of floating window, which also could be hidden if no errors were detected).

Looks very promising though, will be happy to replace iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim.

Files cannot be opened if their names or paths have a space in them

Using glow.nvim freshly installed through vimplug and glow 1.0.1, running :Glow on files whose names or paths contain at least one space produces an error.

Here’s the message that appears when I try it with /tmp/markdown text.md:

Error: open /tmp/markdown: no such file or directory
Usage:
  glow SOURCE [flags]
  glow [command]

Available Commands:
  help        Help about any command
  stash       Stash a markdown

Flags:
  -a, --all            show system files and directories (TUI-mode only)
  -h, --help           help for glow
  -p, --pager          display with pager
  -s, --style string   style name or JSON path (default "auto")
  -v, --version        version for glow
  -w, --width uint     word-wrap at width

Use "glow [command] --help" for more information about a command.


[Process exited 255]

If I rename the file to markdown-text.md, the plugin works as expected.

"OS not supported/recognized" on M1 Macbook

I'm not sure what the effort is to support the M1. I just got this new laptop and was looking to migrate away from emacs for my notes (it doesn't work great on M1 either). I haven't looked much into the code for why this isn't working. let me know if there's any more info I can provide

Error when executing :Glow

Hi,
not sure what's the issue here: I open a markdown file in my vim-wiki, then issue :Glow<CR> but I get this error:

E5105: Error while calling lua chunk: /home/USER/.config/nvim/plugged/glow.nvim/lua/glow.lua:36: attempt to index field 'fn' (a nil value)

use ftplugin folder for lazy loading

Since ftplugin now supports sourcing lua files, we can remove some of the filetype checks and improve the codebase

Glow.nvim with math expression(LaTex)

Sorry I have not found document related to using Glow.nvim with markdown file that include LaTeX formulas. And so far it seems that if markdown files include LaTex formula such as $$x^2$$, Glow.nvim will skip this line (the whole line). At the same time, I'm using vim.markdown and it could display correctly.
Did I do something wrong or miss any documents?

Rmarkdown Files Not Supported

I'm getting a "glow only support markdown files" when I try to open a .rmd file, even though the filetype is markdown. Could this extension please be added :)

Great plugin by the way!

.markdown files not supported

I'm getting a "glow only support markdown files" when I try to open a .markdown file, even though the filetype is markdown. Opening .md works well.

OS not supported

Hi:

Great plugin by the way, thanks for your efforts.

I upgraded nvim at some point in the recent past, now :Glow won't run, I'm not sure what changed, here is my config:

• nvim version

❯ nvim --version
NVIM v0.8.0-dev+555-gd07a39c54
Build type: RelWithDebInfo
LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3
Compilation: /Applications/Xcode_13.2.1.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -DNVIM_TS_HAS_SET_MATCH_LIMIT -DNVIM_TS_HAS_SET_ALLOCATOR -O2 -g -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wno-unused-parameter -Wstrict-prototypes -std=gnu99 -Wshadow -Wconversion -Wdouble-promotion -Wmissing-noreturn -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wmissing-prototypes -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wvla -fstack-protector-strong -fno-common -fdiagnostics-color=always -DINCLUDE_GENERATED_DECLARATIONS -DNVIM_MSGPACK_HAS_FLOAT32 -DNVIM_UNIBI_HAS_VAR_FROM -DMIN_LOG_LEVEL=3 -I/Users/runner/work/neovim/neovim/build/cmake.config -I/Users/runner/work/neovim/neovim/src -I/Users/runner/work/neovim/neovim/.deps/usr/include -I/Applications/Xcode_13.2.1.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.1.sdk/usr/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Headers -I/Users/runner/work/neovim/neovim/build/src/nvim/auto -I/Users/runner/work/neovim/neovim/build/include
Compiled by [email protected]

Features: +acl +iconv +tui
See ":help feature-compile"

• macOS Monterry 12.5
• :lua print(vim.loop.os_uname().sysname) = "Darwin"
• I use wbthomason/packer.nvim to manage my plugins, this is my :Glow snippet:

  use({
    "ellisonleao/glow.nvim",
    branch = "main",
    config = {
      function()
        require("glow").setup({
          border = "rounded",
          width = 100,
        })
      end,
    },
  })

Open glow when not in path

I would like to have :Glow work even when glow is not in my path but it exists in g:glow_binary_path. Currently it opens the terminal up and says command not found. I believe it could be fixed by changing

glow.nvim/lua/glow.lua

Line 197 in ae61bac

vim.fn.termopen(string.format("glow %s", vim.fn.shellescape(path)))

line to vim.fn.termopen(string.format("%s/glow %s", bin_path, vim.fn.shellescape(path)))

Packer installation fail

Already if I try to install like mentioned in reamdme, :PackerSync fail to install the plugin which occurs bc packer haven't loaded plugin so executing GlowInstall command fail for packer
I can open markdown and manually execute GlowInstall this way works but it's not automated

Live editing

Is glow.nvim's main intention to be a .md reader - eg. "there's this .md file in my project's documentation. I'm reading it in neovim. It's a bit painful to read raw markdown so I'll use glow.nvim"?

Would something like having two splits side by side:

• one with the .md file (regular editable nvim buffer)
• one with the glow preview (that updates live whenever you write something in the .md file, and is also scroll-locked to the .md pane) on the right be outisde of the scope of this project?

Live editing is already possible in https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim but it requires opening a separate browser window. glow.nvim is entierly vim based

[Feature] Is there an full screen options?

Full screen or change window size feature would be really helpful, but it seems like there isn't one, btw thank you for making this plugin!!

Glow syntax highlight / color(s) woundn't work on windows platform

I find glow syntax highlighting don't work on Windows. I have another Ubuntu machine with same neovim init scripts & glow syntax coloring works fine there. I am using neovim 0.6.1 with packer on both Ubuntu and Windows.

I have intstalled glow to this path & updated glow_binary_path

vim.g.glow_binary_path="c:\\Neovim\\bin"

P.S. this woks fine on windows terminal prompt too.

`uname -p` check reports the cpu model name on WSL

glow.nvim/lua/glow.lua

Lines 88 to 95 in d862813

	arch = vim.fn.trim(vim.fn.system("uname -p"))
	if arch == "unknown" then
	arch = vim.fn.trim(vim.fn.system("uname -m"))
	end
	if not has_value({"armv6", "armv7", "i386", "x86_64"}, arch) then
	api.nvim_err_writeln("Architecture not supported/recognized!")
	return
	end

I've checked with two wsl distros and for me uname -p reports the cpu model (not x86_64 for example).
uname -m does however respond with x86_64. Due to this the order of assignment for arch the utility fails incorrectly. Why is the -p needed at all?

Unable to configure binary path on windows

Hello,
I'm having a problem trying to configure the plugin in windows. I have installed glow using scoop as they suggest in their website, but whenever I try to execute the command :Glow, the message I get is "Install script not supported on Windows yet. ...".
I've tried to set the global variable g:glow_binary_path to the path where glow is installed, but it doesn't fix it either. Any solutions?

Thank you so much in advance

Install Glow binary at $HOME/.local/bin as per Freedesktop.org XDG standards

I believe the major desktop environments on Linux follow the XDG standards. The recommended location to install binaries is in $HOME/.local/bin. On most Linux and Linux-like distributions, this location is already in $PATH.

Can this be the default location for Glow, at least on Linux? It save users from configuring paths, creating new folders, and what not.

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

Packer problem

I ran :PackerInstall and then when executing :GlowInstall it fails I suppose and show the above

this is on mac running fish and also in Iterm

file does not exists

I can't open any other file

:Glow /path/to/file.md

error: file does not exist 

except for this file

:Glow
:Glow %

Suggested mapping in README

Hi. Thanks a lot for creating this nice plugin.

In README, the following mapping is suggested.

nmap <leader>p :Glow<CR>

Since this plugin is specific to markdown files, I tried buffer-specific mapping:

augroup glow
autocmd!
autocmd FileType markdown nnoremap <buffer> <silent> <Space> <Cmd>Glow<CR>
augroup END

Unfortunately with this mapping, I cannot toggle the glow preview window by hitting <Space> because the mapping is not enabled in the preview buffer.
So my thought about mapping is that it could be better to enable users to customize mapping to toggle (or close) preview window in the preview buffer. What do you think about it?

Glow in my neovim look weird

Hi, First of all thx a lot to make great thing, I'd like you help me about weird stuff

as you see in the picture it have | | |

I'm use Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
and neovim version NVIM v0.8.0-dev+237-g6e414b698

Linux AMD64 system failed with "Architecture not supported/recognized!"

Hello, devs
Thanks for your plugin, but when I enter :GlowInstall , it failed with:

installing glow..                                                     
Error in packer_compiled: ...vim/site/pack/packer/opt/packer.nvim/lua/
packer/load.lua:83: Vim(lua):Architecture not supported/recognized!   
Please check your config for correctness

I'm using packer, and the config is:

    use {"ellisonleao/glow.nvim", branch = 'main', cmd = {"Glow", "GlowInstall"}}

And the os is gentoo linux, uname -a returns:

Linux laptop 5.17.0-pf3-juan #3 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 8 10:16:45 HKT 2022 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U with Radeon Graphics AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux