mdr

mdr

Markdown reader with color

Requirements

• Node
• npm (comes bundled with Node)

Usage

Install the mdr command globally

npm install -g mdr

Then you can do the following...

mdr                            # Show README.md from current directory
mdr foo.md -i                  # Use dark-on-light style
mdr http://example.com/foo.md  # Show foo.md from a the web
mdr mrchimp/mdr -g             # Show README.md from Github repo

Do mdr -h for more help.

Notes

Italic and strikethrough aren't widely supported so I've made them coloured as well. They will show as italic and struck through where possible.

Coverage

✔ = Implemented
✘ = Not implemented

• ✔ Paragraphs / Line Breaks
• ✔ Headers
• ✔ Blockquotes
• ✔ Unordered Lists
• ✔ Lists
• ✔ Code Blocks
• ✔ Code
• ✔ Horizontal Rules
• ✔ Links
• ✔ Emphasis
• ✔ Strong
• ✔ Images (outputs [$ALT_TEXT - $TITLE - $URL])
• ✘ HTML
• ✘ Nested Blockquotes
• ✘ Ordered Lists (can't implement due to limitation in Marked)
• ✘ Nested Lists

Things I might get around to

• Improve pad() implementation
• Syntax highlighting for code blocks
• Make paginatable - output content to less -r or something? Why doesn't this work? Colours get lost.
• Detect italic support?

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