| mdcat | mdless | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 4 | |
| 2,022 | 819 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.3 | 9.2 | |
| about 1 month ago | 4 months ago | |
| Rust | Ruby | |
| Mozilla Public License 2.0 | MIT License |
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
mdless
Posts with mentions or reviews of mdless.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-26.
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📓 Versionner et builder l'eBook de son Entretien Annuel d'Evaluation sur Git(Hub)
mdless : utility that provides a formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files in Terminal
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Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages
If you like this you might like mdless, which is exactly what it sounds like.
https://github.com/ttscoff/mdless
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what is the simplest MarkDown viewer ?
mdless - https://github.com/ttscoff/mdless
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Command line utility to show md / regular txt files like man pages?
There other cli markdown viewers: * bat - my personal choice * mdcat - viewer in rust * mdless - was ok as far as I recall * glow - used to use it, did the job pretty well * terminal_markdown_viewer * mdo
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mdcat and mdless you can also consider the following projects:
glow - Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻
bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.
terminal_markdown_viewer - Styled Terminal Markdown Viewer
termimad - A library to display rich (Markdown) snippets and texts in a rust terminal application
markdown-mode - Emacs Markdown Mode
mdcat - cat for markdown
MDcat - A super simple script which uses the GitHub API to convert your markdown files to GitHub styled HTML site.
mdo - Terminal Markdown Viewer