• juancn a day ago

    A 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

    It looks nice and clean code.

    • taf2 a day ago

      Thanks i added a screenshot and in 0.2 you can see images now in the cli too

      • m4r71n a day 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 21 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 19 hours ago

            Example: If a build is going on in the background, I can see when it stops.

            • skydhash 18 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 14 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 20 hours ago

              pretty fun right :)

              • keithnz 18 hours ago

                no.... and your screen shot completely fails to show off your tool

                • taf2 5 hours ago

                  There is a pull request option - feel free to use it

      • jonaustin 21 hours ago

        Glow is pretty great and has been around for a while:

        https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

        • pss314 a day ago

          Markdown 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
          • llimllib a day ago

            I created one I like: 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

            • smoyer 19 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 11 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 17 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 a day ago

                    3 source files, nice code, no vibe-coding slob, nice little project... That's rare these days

                    • maxsimb a day ago

                      https://github.com/Vagab/mark similar tool, but with editing enabled also!

                      • eyjafjalajokull a day ago

                        It’s funny to see markdown tools popping up with the rise of agents.

                      • socceroos 16 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.

                        • kalterdev a day ago

                          Isn’t vi good enough?

                          • w0m a day 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 a day 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 20 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 a day ago

                              No, I prefer emacs.

                              • kurtis_reed 18 hours ago

                                vi was mentioned because this software has "VI keybindings". no one asked what you prefer.

                                • syngrog66 a day ago

                                  makes sign of cross, and hisses

                              • verdverm a day ago

                                https://github.com/charmbracelet/glamour

                                Charm Glamour with a view port uses basic vi keybinds as well

                                • metalliqaz 19 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 a day ago

                                    You had me at vi bindings

                                    • syngrog66 a day ago

                                      ie. vim

                                      • taf2 a day ago

                                        aka view

                                      • bainganbharta a day ago

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                                        • ghost-of-dmr 21 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 18 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 9 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