mandown - mdn

A man-page inspired Markdown pager written in C.

Name change: executable's name changed to

mdn

What is it

Need to lookup things from README? Or from manual page? Or perhaps just want to install something cool...

Update

• Mouse: other key are in progress
  • enable mouse_1 select href
  • correct mouse wheel for scrolling.

Sample

Installation

Current version is still being developed for some HTML tags. However, it should work on most Markdown documents.

Homebrew

$ brew install mandown

The installed binary

mdn

/usr/local/bin/

$ git clone https://github.com/Titor8115/mandown.git
$ cd mandown
$ make install

To remove the binary, you can run the commands below, or remove manually.

$ cd mandown
$ make uninstall

If you just want to compile and test it.

$ cd mandown
$ make

Feel free to create an issue.

Usage

Check out the new sample

$ mdn sample.md

Mouse wheel scrolling is supported! (if your terminal emulator allows)

Scroll Up: ↑, k

Scroll Down: ↓, j

Page Up: space bar, pg up, fn + ↑a, b

Page Down: back space, pg down, fn + ↓, f

Select & Get href: tab or double click mouse 1 & enter

Exit: q

To read detailed usage, run

mdn -h

Library dependency

Mandown requires

libncurses(w)

libxml2

Make sure you have them installed before compiling.

Homebrew

From source

$ brew install ncurses
$ brew install libxml2-dev

Precompiled binary

shell
$ brew install mandown

Debian

$ apt-get install libncursesw5-dev
$ apt-get install libxml2-dev

Todo

• [x] Line fold/wrap on white space
• [x] Optimized resizing
• [ ] Table and contents rendering
• [x] Makefile makeover