diff --git a/plugins/preview-tui b/plugins/preview-tui
index 7547a083..31328a93 100755
--- a/plugins/preview-tui
+++ b/plugins/preview-tui
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ preview_file () {
         elif exists exa; then
             exa -G --colour=always 2>/dev/null
         else
-            fifo_pager ls --color=always
+            fifo_pager ls -F --directories-first --color=always
         fi
     elif [ "${encoding#*)}" = "binary" ]; then
         if [ "${mimetype%%/*}" = "image" ]; then
diff --git a/plugins/preview-tui-ext b/plugins/preview-tui-ext
index ebd2415a..3928d794 100755
--- a/plugins/preview-tui-ext
+++ b/plugins/preview-tui-ext
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ preview_file() {
         elif exists exa; then
             exa -G --group-directories-first --colour=always 2>/dev/null
         else
-            fifo_pager ls --group-directories-first --color=always
+            fifo_pager ls -F --group-directories-first --color=always
         fi
     elif [ "${encoding#*)}" = "binary" ]; then
         if [ "${mimetype%%/*}" = "image" ]; then