A simple AsciiDoc preview while editing AsciiDoc documents in Neovim.
Warning
The plugin is in an early stage not fully tested.
Use at your own risk.
Works on: ✅ Linux, ✅ macOS and ✅ Windows with WSL2
The plugin started as a playground for learning Neovim plugin programming with Lua and a server component with Node.js. Therefore, many things are not solved optimally and partly implemented twice (plugin and server). Helpful tips are welcome.
- Once started with
:AsciiDocPreview
, a preview of the current AsciiDoc file is shown in the web browser. - The preview is updated every time the AsciiDoc file is saved or a new AsciiDoc file is opened.
- When exiting Neovim, no open Asciidoc files exists or using the
:AsciiDocPreviewStop
command, the preview server is terminated in the background. - The generation of the HTML preview is done either with:
- Asciidoctor.js (default, no local installed Asciidoctor needed)
- Or the locally installed Asciidoctor
tools (
asciidoctor
andasciidoctor-diagram
).
- Neovim >= 0.8
- Node.js with
node
andnpm
command curl
command
The plugin allows optionally using the local installed Asciidoctor tools.
- This requires the
asciidoctor
command with theasciidoctor-diagram
extension.
{
'tigion/nvim-asciidoc-preview',
ft = { 'asciidoc' },
build = 'cd server && npm install',
opts = {
-- Add user configuration here
},
}
Show instruction
use({
'tigion/nvim-asciidoc-preview',
run = 'cd server && npm install',
config = function()
require('asciidoc-preview').setup({
-- Add user configuration here
})
end,
})
For lazy.nvim use the opts
or config
property.
opts = {
server = {
converter = 'js'
},
preview = {
position = 'current',
},
}
Variant with config
config = function()
require('asciidoc-preview').setup({
server = {
converter = 'js'
},
preview = {
position = 'current',
},
})
end,
For other plugin manager, call the setup function
require('asciidoc-preview').setup({ ... })
directly.
Currently available settings for the user:
{
server = {
-- Determines how the AsciiDoc file is converted to HTML for the preview.
-- `js` - asciidoctor.js (no local installation needed)
-- `cmd` - asciidoctor command (local installation needed)
converter = 'js',
-- Determines the local port of the preview website.
-- Must be between 10000 and 65535.
port = 11235,
},
preview = {
-- Determines the scroll position of the preview website.
-- `current` - Keep current scroll position
-- `start` - Start of the website
-- `sync` - (experimental) Same (similar) position as in Neovim
-- => inaccurate, because very content dependent
position = 'current',
},
}
Command | Description |
---|---|
:AsciiDocPreview |
Starts the AsciiDoc preview server in background and opens the current AsciiDoc file in the standard web browser. |
:AsciiDocPreviewStop |
(if needed) Stops the AsciiDoc preview server. |
:AsciiDocPreviewOpen |
(if needed) (Re)Opens the current AsciiDoc file in the standard web browser. |
:AsciiDocPreviewNotify |
(if needed) Notifies the server to display the current AsciiDoc file in the preview. |
A keymap suggestion:
vim.keymap.set('n', '<Leader>cp', ':AsciiDocPreview<CR>', { desc = 'Preview AsciiDoc document' })
-
To use the same keymap for different file types and plugins (e.g. markdown-preview.nvim), place the following in
after/ftplugin/asciidoc.lua
:local opts = { buffer = true, silent = true } opts.desc = 'Preview AsciiDoc document' vim.keymap.set('n', '<Leader>cp', ':AsciiDocPreview<CR>', opts)
This way the keymap is only set for AsciiDoc files.
- Open an AsciiDoc document in Neovim.
- Run the
:checkhealth asciidoc-preview
command. - Open a new Issue.
- Describe your problem and include:
- the
checkhealth
output - the Installation/Configuration with the used package manager
- the content of the
~/.local/state/nvim/nvim-asciidoc-preview-server.log
file
- the
Warning
The nvim-asciidoc-preview-server.log
file contains private information
from the current/last session. These are, for example, the name of your
home directory and the names of the AsciiDoc files used.
Do not share this information with others. So please remove or anonymize this information before.