3N3np·May 1, 2023
Since we're talking alternatives:
- https://github.com/swsnr/mdcat
- https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
In Show HN: Frogmouth – A Markdown browser for the terminalswsnr
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mdcat
cat for markdown
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mdcat can render images in iTerm2, Kiitty or WezTerm
It has a few quirks but great piece of software nonetheless.
In Show HN: Textual Markdown – a Markdown “browser” in the terminalNot to be confused with actual `cat for markdown` https://github.com/lunaryorn/mdcat
In MDcat – Simple Markdown to GitHub styled HTML converterDid you try these:
- https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
- https://github.com/ttscoff/mdless
- https://github.com/axiros/terminal_markdown_viewer
- https://github.com/lunaryorn/mdcat
- https://github.com/MichaelMure/mdr
In Pandoc – A universal document converterAlso you can have interesting rendering possibilities like in-line display of images, charts, tables.
Like iTerm2? ;)
https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html
https://github.com/lunaryorn/mdcat
There are probably Linux terminals that can do the same.
Funny that people "get" jupityr notebooks but not this.
I think one reason is that Jupyter does not sell itself as a UNIX terminal, so people feel less strongly about it. Also, Jupyter uses a web browser that you probably have running anyway.
In Hyper 2, Electron based terminal