mdv - another terminal viewer tool for Markdown

in «tip» by Michael Beard
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Terminal Markdown Viewer (mdv)

What it solved

I was having some issue with several of the other markdown terminal viewers that I typically use (mdless, mdp, rich-framework, and the like) as they don't really do tables (like rich) and mdless was ok, but ... I wanted more. I'm not sure that this does it for me either, but the whole project is in Python, so ...

Terminal Markdown Viewer is in GitHub. It also has a customization section that I will want to look at.

For what I would usually want to do with it (pipe output into it), it has a slightly not standard way to do this:

jrnl -5 --export md | mdv -

So, you have to supply the trailing "-" or it doesn't know that you're piping something to it and ignores it.

I'll want to take a look at this to see how it is doing things, as there is probably some good ideas here.