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mandown

Man-page inspired Markdown viewer

TLDR

View a Markdown file
$ mdn [path/to/file.md]
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SYNOPSIS

mdn [options] file

DESCRIPTION

mandown (command: mdn) is a man-page inspired Markdown viewer for the terminal. It renders Markdown documents with a familiar man-page style interface, supporting mouse scrolling, vim-like and less-like navigation keybindings.
Navigation keys include j/k or arrow keys for line scrolling, f/b or Page Down/Page Up for page scrolling, and q to quit.

CONFIGURATION

~/.config/mdn/mdnrc

Configuration file for mouse support, indent length, and control scheme (mdn, vim, less).

CAVEATS

Requires libncurses(w), libxml2, and libconfig as compile-time dependencies.

HISTORY

mandown was created by Titor8115 and is written in C.

SEE ALSO

man(1), glow(1), mdcat(1), bat(1)

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