| ▲ | Show HN: leaf – a terminal Markdown previewer with a GUI-like experience(github.com) |
| 44 points by RivoLink 2 days ago | 22 comments |
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| ▲ | DonaldPShimoda 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Features: > <bullet> <checkbox> description 1 > <bullet> <checkbox> description 2 > ... Like... why are we doing this. What is the purpose of having a bunch of green checkbox emojis in the already bulleted list of features. The only thing it tells me is that an LLM was probably used extensively in building this project. |
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| ▲ | localhoster 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Forgot m-dashs and the arch.md file | | |
| ▲ | DonaldPShimoda 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I don't think the em-dashes are particularly out of place in a list like this, though it's not the style I use. I didn't realize ARCHITECTURE.md was an LLM thing (though I suppose I would've if I'd opened it); I'll have to keep my eyes open for that one in the future too. |
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| ▲ | RivoLink 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I’ve updated the Features section. |
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| ▲ | SupLockDef 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| `pandoc "$@ | lynx -stdin` and I save you from 225 potential supply chain attack crates. `cargo audit` finds 3 vulnerabilities, you should fix them. Blazing safe. |
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| ▲ | jasonpeacock 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I used to use Glow, but now I'm enjoying mdterm: https://github.com/bahdotsh/mdterm |
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| ▲ | RivoLink 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Hi HN, I built leaf, a Markdown previewer that runs entirely in the terminal. It supports keyboard/mouse navigation, syntax highlighting, tables, checkboxes, clickable links, search, table of contents, local Markdown links, inline images, Mermaid diagrams, and LaTeX-to-Unicode rendering. It works on Linux, macOS, Windows, and Termux. GitHub:
https://github.com/RivoLink/leaf I’d appreciate feedback on the UX, missing features, and performance on large Markdown files. |
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| ▲ | yboris 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Please consider adding a screenshot directly into the README (rather than a separate link). Also maybe a single paragraph at the top describing the project rather than jumping into `install`. | | |
| ▲ | RivoLink 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Thanks for your feedback.
I added the screenshot and a short description inside it. |
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| ▲ | benj111 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Why a previewer rather than an editor that updates as you write? Do you have a specific use case? It seems to me that markdown is for writing with the ultimate output supposedly being html. Having a viewer of the markdown doesn't seem to add anything. Whereas making it an editor makes it more of a rich text editor. I'm not particularly saying youre wrong, more posing a philosophical question. | | |
| ▲ | RivoLink 2 days ago | parent [-] | | There are both "open in editor" and "watch" modes. The idea is not to replace an editor, but to complement it:
- "open in editor" lets you edit the file with your preferred editor
- "watch" automatically refreshes the preview when the file changes So you can keep your usual workflow while having a fast, structured preview directly in the terminal. |
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| ▲ | RivoLink a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Thanks everyone for the feedback, this was super helpful.
I’m already working on improvements based on your comments. |
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| ▲ | dhruv3006 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is an interesting approach - I guess you did not move away to a gui - but tried to have a guy-like experience in the terminal only - in https://voiden.md/ we do have a gui with blocks for api testing. |
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| ▲ | RivoLink a day ago | parent [-] | | Thanks for the feedback! You're absolutely right. The goal was to create a GUI-like experience directly in the terminal. Your project looks really interesting too. |
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| ▲ | timetraveller26 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| cool project, how does it compare to glow? https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow |
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| ▲ | kseistrup 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | For one thing, glow doesn't do math equations. | | |
| ▲ | RivoLink 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Good point! Glow doesn’t support math equations, but leaf does. | | |
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| ▲ | fragmede 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | If this project doesn't have open issues going back a year that are unanswered, it's doing better than glow. I forked glow to fix this one specific rendering bug, because the maintainers didn't respond to my bug report. I can't say that my fork is any better maintained, because no one is using it, but glow isn't maintained and has bugs so I wouldn't hold it up as anything other than abandonware. |
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