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Markdown is devalued as a format because of the bizarre shortage of Markdown VIEWERS. You find Markdown documents in every open-source project, and you always w
by VerifiedReports 10mo ago
Markdown is devalued as a format because of the bizarre shortage of Markdown VIEWERS. You find Markdown documents in every open-source project, and you always wind up viewing them with all the embedded formatting characters. Why?
Why provide documentation in a format that is so poorly supported by READERS? Or, to respect the chicken-&-egg problem here: Why is there such a shortage of Markdown viewers?
Every time this comes up, respondents always cite this or that EDITOR that has Markdown "preview." NO. We're not editing the documentation; we're just reading it. So why do we have to load the document into an editor and then invoke a "preview" of it? Consider how nonsensical the term "preview" is in that case: What are we "previewing" its appearance in, given the dearth of Markdown readers?
- juliangmp 10mo agoIf you're looking for a CLI markdown reader then I'd recommend glow. https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
- VerifiedReports 10mo agoThanks. But that's even stranger! I just want to double-click a Markdown file in my OS's file browser and read it, with formatting applied.
- juliangmp 10mo agoAhh, if you're on KDE then Okular should do the trick, it should even update live when you update the markdown file.
- VerifiedReports 10mo agoThanks!