Textualize See is a command-line tool for opening files in the terminal. The project is currently in alpha and has only been tested under MacOS, but it aims to work on all platforms.

A TOML configuration file maps glob-style patterns to commands. For example, you can configure See to open any file matching the “*.py” pattern, Rich-cli to open “*.rs” files, and bat to open.

Think of see like double-clicking a file on the desktop in the terminal.

This configuration is flexible enough that see can run different commands depending on the directory. For example, you might want to use a different command to display .html files (actually template files) in your Django project than elsewhere on your system.

While the default is to view the file, you can request different actions such as “edit”, “format”, “print”, etc.

Install:

pipx install textualize_see