mdcat
cat for markdown (by swsnr)
showdown
Moved to https://gitlab.com/craigbarnes/showdown (by craigbarnes)
mdcat | showdown | |
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2 | 1 | |
2,022 | 59 | |
- | - | |
8.3 | 10.0 | |
about 1 month ago | about 2 years ago | |
Rust | Vala | |
Mozilla Public License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
mdcat
Posts with mentions or reviews of mdcat.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.
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what is the simplest MarkDown viewer ?
Quickest way I found to view .md files from my terminal is mdcat.
- Show HN: Textual Markdown – a Markdown “browser” in the terminal
showdown
Posts with mentions or reviews of showdown.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.
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what is the simplest MarkDown viewer ?
Showdown is implemented in Vala+GTK3 and is extremely simple. https://github.com/craigbarnes/showdown
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mdcat and showdown you can also consider the following projects:
glow - Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻
photos - Photo viewer and organizer designed for elementary OS
mdless
appcenter - Pay-what-you-can app store for elementary OS
bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.
markdown-mode - Emacs Markdown Mode
termimad - A library to display rich (Markdown) snippets and texts in a rust terminal application
terminal_markdown_viewer - Styled Terminal Markdown Viewer
Joplin - Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.