Thanks i added a screenshot and in 0.2 you can see images now in the cli too
m4r71n 24 hours ago [-]
The screenshot you added uses a transparent terminal where you can see your Discord chat in the background. You might want to remove that ;-)
forty 23 hours ago [-]
Why would someone use a transparent window background? Are people really reading the window behind it at the same time as the foreground window?
alextingle 21 hours ago [-]
Example: If a build is going on in the background, I can see when it stops.
skydhash 20 hours ago [-]
You 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 16 hours ago [-]
Yeah 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.
taf2 22 hours ago [-]
pretty fun right :)
keithnz 20 hours ago [-]
no.... and your screen shot completely fails to show off your tool
taf2 7 hours ago [-]
There is a pull request option - feel free to use it
jonaustin 23 hours ago [-]
Glow is pretty great and has been around for a while:
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
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
smoyer 21 hours ago [-]
Here's the one I use a lot ... And the underlying `glamour` library is great for programmatic markdown display: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow.
nikvdp 13 hours ago [-]
If 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
}
joshka 19 hours ago [-]
Hey if there's significant overlap, what about coming and collab-ing on https://github.com/joshka/tui-markdown? (crate + cli, rust / ratatui / crossterm based)
Blackarea 1 days ago [-]
3 source files, nice code, no vibe-coding slob, nice little project... That's rare these days
It’s funny to see markdown tools popping up with the rise of agents.
kalterdev 1 days ago [-]
Isn’t vi good enough?
w0m 1 days ago [-]
NeoVim w/ render-markdown.nvim
(not to poo on OP - I dig a clean TUI renderer, I have BAT installed for a reason)
Blackarea 1 days ago [-]
Bat 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 22 hours ago [-]
render-markdown.nvim is very nice and works with GitHub Flavoured Markdown, even down to some of the newer features like INFO, IMPORTANT, etc. quotes.
munk-a 1 days ago [-]
No, I prefer emacs.
kurtis_reed 19 hours ago [-]
vi was mentioned because this software has "VI keybindings". no one asked what you prefer.
syngrog66 1 days ago [-]
makes sign of cross, and hisses
socceroos 18 hours ago [-]
I 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.
Charm Glamour with a view port uses basic vi keybinds as well
metalliqaz 21 hours ago [-]
It'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.
gigatexal 1 days ago [-]
You had me at vi bindings
syngrog66 1 days ago [-]
ie. vim
taf2 1 days ago [-]
aka view
bainganbharta 1 days ago [-]
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ghost-of-dmr 23 hours ago [-]
Markdown 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 20 hours ago [-]
This 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 11 hours ago [-]
Great 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
Rendered at 23:01:28 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
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
It looks nice and clean code.
https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
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
(not to poo on OP - I dig a clean TUI renderer, I have BAT installed for a reason)
Charm Glamour with a view port uses basic vi keybinds as well
Stop trying to re-invent the wheel when the tools are already there.