mdr

Markdown reader with color

Requirements

• Node
• npm (comes bundled with Node)

Installation

Install the mdr command globally

npm install -g mdr

Usage

mdr [file] [[-g github_repo | -b bitbucket_repo] [-B] | -h | -v] [-i] [-s]

The first parameter should be a file name or url. If not provided, this will default to README.md. github_repo and bitbucket_repo should be in the format user/rpo e.g. mrchimp/mdr.

Here are some things you can do:

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 -g mrchimp/mdr             # Show README.md from Github repo
mdr foo.md -b bar/bar          # Show foo.md from Bitbucket repo
mdr -n mdr                     # Show readme from NPM package
mdr -g mrchimp/mdr -B dev      # Show README.md from the dev branch
                                 of a Github repo

mdr -h for more help.

Config

Config files are found and parsed by rc. For example put the following content in $HOME/.mdrrc or $HOME/.mdr/config.

{
    "invert": "true"
}

See rc docs for more in-depth instructions.

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
• Detect italic support?

Screenshot