Time for a bit of Lua hacking. Ever since I fell down the Neovim rabbit hole I've been having a tonne of fun building little extensions and plugins. And I found that by using Telescope as a framework, it's fairly easy to take any command-line tool that emits JSON and get a nice little browser/manager going. So let me walk you through it. We'll start from an empty directory and end with a plugin that lets you browse through all the docker images you have available, and start a VM directly from inside the editor. (VM in ViM!) Links: * The Docker/Neovim source code: https://github.com/krisajenkins/telescope-docker.nvim * Similar, for Kafka: https://github.com/krisajenkins/telescope-kafka.nvim * Similar, for Quix: https://github.com/krisajenkins/telescope-quix.nvim * Telescope's Developer's Guide: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim/blob/master/developers.md * My Neovim Config: https://github.com/krisajenkins/neovim-config 0:00 Intro 1:15 Setting up for development 2:55 A simple Telescope picker 5:25 Dealing with richer data 7:14 A simple previewer 9:05 Displaying richer data 11:29 Nicer display with syntax highlighting 12:20 Talking to Docker 15:20 Tidying it up 16:13 What 'ordinal' actually does 16:53 This could work with any JSON tool 17:47 Adding the action to run an image 22:17 Until next time...