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.
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
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
}
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)
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
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?
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.
https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
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
(not to poo on OP - I dig a clean TUI renderer, I have BAT installed for a reason)
Charm Glamour with a view port uses basic vi keybinds as well
Stop trying to re-invent the wheel when the tools are already there.