A man-page inspired Markdown pager written in C.

Name change: executable's name changed to mdn

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

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

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

$ brew install mandown

The installed binary mdn would be at /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.

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

Mandown requires libncurses(w) and libxml2 as compile-time dependencies.

Make sure you have them installed before compiling.

From source

$ brew install ncurses
$ brew install libxml2-dev

Precompiled binary

$ brew install mandown

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

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