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Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings
- syngrog66 8mo agoie. vim
- taf2 8mo agoaka view
- Blackarea 8mo ago3 source files, nice code, no vibe-coding slob, nice little project... That's rare these days
- juancn 8mo agoA screenshot would be a nice addition to the readme. It seems is only pure text (no support for image extensions of a terminal, just a link to the image), based on this: https://github.com/taf2/mdvi/blob/master/src/renderer.rs https://github.com/taf2/mdvi/blob/master/src/renderer.rs It looks nice and clean code.
- taf2 8mo agoThanks i added a screenshot and in 0.2 you can see images now in the cli too
- m4r71n 8mo agoThe screenshot you added uses a transparent terminal where you can see your Discord chat in the background. You might want to remove that ;-)
- forty 8mo agoWhy would someone use a transparent window background? Are people really reading the window behind it at the same time as the foreground window?
- taf2 8mo agopretty fun right :)
- alextingle 8mo agoExample: If a build is going on in the background, I can see when it stops.
- skydhash 8mo agoYou can use `build-tool; tput bel` to hear the bell when it ends. Some terminal allows to set the urgent flag on the windows when the bell rings.
- forty 8mo agoYeah I have used desktop notifications for such things (via notify-send etc), but I'm going to accept this explanation for transparent background as it makes some sense to me.
- verdverm 8mo agohttps://github.com/charmbracelet/glamour https://github.com/charmbracelet/glamour Charm Glamour with a view port uses basic vi keybinds as well
- maxsimb 8mo agohttps://github.com/Vagab/mark https://github.com/Vagab/mark similar tool, but with editing enabled also!
- eyjafjalajokull 8mo agoIt’s funny to see markdown tools popping up with the rise of agents.
- piekvorst 8mo agoIsn’t vi good enough?
- munk-a 8mo agoNo, I prefer emacs.
- syngrog66 8mo agomakes sign of cross, and hisses
- kurtis_reed 8mo agovi was mentioned because this software has "VI keybindings". no one asked what you prefer.
- w0m 8mo agoNeoVim w/ render-markdown.nvim (not to poo on OP - I dig a clean TUI renderer, I have BAT installed for a reason)
- Blackarea 8mo agoBat is nice. Oh dang now i have to try this plugin. I remember trying a couple of similar ones that got me so frustrated that i abandoned the idea of markdown viewers in nvim... Here we go again XD
- chrysoprace 8mo agorender-markdown.nvim is very nice and works with GitHub Flavoured Markdown, even down to some of the newer features like INFO, IMPORTANT, etc. quotes.
- bainganbharta 8mo ago[dead]
- llimllib 8mo agoI created one I like: https://github.com/llimllib/mdriver https://github.com/llimllib/mdriver it can echo images with kitty image protocol, and streams the output, which I use to show LLM output as it arrives It doesn't handle paging - you can pipe it to `less` or whatever pager for that
- pss314 8mo agoMarkdown reader using find, fzf and lnav find . \( -path '*/vendor/*' -or -path '*/.git/*' -or -path '*/node_modules/*' \) -prune -or -type f -name "*.md" -print | fzf | xargs lnav In the above command, the find command excludes directories such as "vendor" (golang), ".git" (git) and "node_modules" (nodejs). The lnav itself provides the markdown support https://lnav.org/2022/08/06/markdown-support.html https://lnav.org/2022/08/06/markdown-support.html
- gigatexal 8mo agoYou had me at vi bindings
- jonaustin 8mo agoGlow is pretty great and has been around for a while: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
- ghost-of-dmr 8mo agoMarkdown is already readable as-is. How is this any different from running "more my_file.md" ? Stop trying to re-invent the wheel when the tools are already there.
- collinvandyck76 8mo agoThis is an odd comment on "Hacker" news. There's a joy to be had in making things like this, even though there are better alternatives and it's often a weird thing to do in the first place. I often do not post the things I create here and elsewhere because I dread this kind of feedback. What do you hope OP takes away from your post?
- taf2 8mo agoGreat question- rather then having to push a change to GitHub to see the format changes you can just mdvi it now. Iterate locally is nice
- smoyer 8mo agoHere's the one I use a lot ... And the underlying `glamour` library is great for programmatic markdown display: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow.
- metalliqaz 8mo agoIt's funny because the whole idea of Markdown is that it is readable both as text and rendered, so it shouldn't require a terminal renderer.
- joshka 8mo agoHey if there's significant overlap, what about coming and collab-ing on https://github.com/joshka/tui-markdown https://github.com/joshka/tui-markdown? (crate + cli, rust / ratatui / crossterm based)
- socceroos 8mo agoI personally would have liked colours support like Glow has. At least the ability to theme it so we can add colours if we want. Nice tool, though.
- nikvdp 8mo agoIf you like the man page aesthetic, using pandoc with groff is the most readable way to read markdown on the terminal I've found: mdless() { if command -v pandoc >/dev/null; then if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then cat | pandoc -s -f markdown -t man | groff -T utf8 -man | less else pandoc -s -f markdown -t man "$*" | groff -T utf8 -man | less fi else less "$@" fi }