Formatting lost when piped to `less` about rich HOT 4 CLOSED

Couple of things going on here. Rich detects that it is not writing directly to a terminal and won't output control codes. Normally this is desirable, but you can force it to write control codes by adding force_terminal=True to the Console constructor.

I've also noticed that less itself won't display color/style unless you add the -R switch.

Hope that helps.

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@NightMachinary That's not a bad idea. It could work with python -m rich.markdown readme.md

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I've added a python -m rich.markdown command. Hopefully this will do what you need.

If you need any changes I'd be happy to accept a PR. See the end of markdown.py

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I suggest adding this code snippet to the readme, lots of people will find it useful (there are tools like mdless just for this, and I like rich better.)

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys, os
from rich.console import Console
from rich.markdown import Markdown

console = Console(force_terminal=bool(os.environ.get("rich_force_terminal", True)))
with open(sys.argv[1]) as readme:
    markdown = Markdown(readme.read(), code_theme="")
console.print(markdown)

I also use the following zsh snippet in addition to the above:

mdv() {
    # mdview
    local readme="$(fd -e md|head -1)"
    md.py "${@:-$readme}" | less
}

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