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This looks neat, congrats. For anyone looking for a more general renderer, https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow .

comment by snehesht · 2026-09-11 · in Show HN: Beautiful Markdown rendering in your terminal

I assume from the name that Shine is inspired by [Glow]( https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow ), how is this different?

comment by camelfarmer · 2026-09-10 · in Show HN: Shine – a terminal Markdown previewer and docs linter

…AEO? It reads like there are not dozens of these already. Charm's stack even support stylesheets https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow (CLI) https://github.com/charmbracelet/glamour (module)

comment by verdverm · 2026-06-04 · in Leaf Makes Markdown Readable Inside the Terminal

or just use glow which is golang. https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by jonaustin · 2026-04-24 · in Show HN: leaf – a terminal Markdown previewer with a GUI-like experience

cool project, how does it compare to glow? https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by timetraveller26 · 2026-04-24 · in Show HN: leaf – a terminal Markdown previewer with a GUI-like experience

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story by thunderbong · 2026-03-14 · 0 comments

…I use a lot ... And the underlying `glamour` library is great for programmatic markdown display: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow .

comment by smoyer · 2026-02-11 · in Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings

Glow is pretty great and has been around for a while: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by jonaustin · 2026-02-10 · in Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings

…I see what you mean about glow, that looks like a nice UX improvement - I'm going to try your fork. https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/compare/master...fragm...

comment by lioeters · 2026-01-02 · in Assorted less(1) tips

If you're looking for a CLI markdown reader then I'd recommend glow. https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by juliangmp · 2025-12-23 · in Plugins case study: mdBook preprocessors

…to be paired with a parser (like https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc ) and/or a renderer (like https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow ). If no such pairing is available then it pushes many people to separately reinvent parsers badly.…

comment by robot-wrangler · 2025-11-12 · in The terminal of the future

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story by drewipson · 2025-06-27 · 0 comments

glow is kinda that: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by ralgozino · 2025-06-17 · in Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser

…) + free models ( https://openrouter.ai/models?max_price=0 ) + glow ( https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow ) + adding this to your .rc file: function lm { local input="$*" llm -s 'Answer as short and concise as possible' ${inpu

comment by kristopolous · 2025-02-09 · in Some terminal frustrations

…reflow when the terminal window is resized etc... Shout-out to Charmbracelet's stuff such as Glow ( https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow ) and Gum ( https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum ) for rendering markdown nicely in the terminal and…

comment by pmarreck · 2025-01-27 · in Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense tracker

I really enjoy `glow`, it makes me smile when I use it: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow It's a commandline markdown viewer/renderer.

comment by jasonpeacock · 2024-10-09 · in Command Line Tools I Like (2022)

https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/issues/172 https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/issues/615 But it looks like they finally removed that code a few months ago: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/pull/619

comment by JoosToopit · 2024-09-17 · in Techniques I use to create a great user experience for shell scripts

…the person you're responding to is FOS but anyone can audit the source code to find such a thing: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by pmarreck · 2024-09-16 · in Techniques I use to create a great user experience for shell scripts

Please point me to the exact place in the source code where it does that: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by pmarreck · 2024-09-16 · in Techniques I use to create a great user experience for shell scripts

https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow is pretty nice for stylized TUI output

comment by pmarreck · 2024-09-14 · in Techniques I use to create a great user experience for shell scripts

…adding `| glow -` at the end, it will pretty-print it in the Terminal, if that's something you like https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by pmarreck · 2024-08-20 · in Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV

For rending markdown, I use https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by bas3l1ne · 2024-07-28 · in In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

Charm makes a nice tool: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by verdverm · 2024-06-18 · in A decent way to render Markdown files directly in your terminal

…anyone knows of a good markdown reader library for the terminal in python? Here’s a Go example: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow Btw, the Charm/charmbracelet projects are fantastic, wish there was something like that but in python

comment by nico · 2024-03-13 · in Show HN: A user-friendly UI for viewing and editing Markdown files

I really like Glow: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow Cloud part is done right. No accounts, no emails. Just your ssh key (which you probably already have).

comment by meehow · 2023-08-15 · in Ask HN: How do you synchronise your notes?

…[0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider [1] https://aider.chat/examples/2048-game.html [2] https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/pull/502

comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-07-04 · in Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI

…[0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider [1] https://aider.chat/examples/2048-game.html [2] https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/pull/502 [3] https://discord.gg/fHcgCRGu

comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-06-30 · in Show HN: Open-source code search with OpenAI's function calling

…use glow to preview README.md for GitHub, so I wanted it to render line breaks like GitHub does. https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/pull/502 I've also been able solve a couple of github issues that were file by users by just pasting the…

comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-06-21 · in Show HN: gpt-engineer – platform for devs to tinker with AI programming tools

…Markdown and this could be a great way to browse them. Out of curiosity, have you seen glow[0]? [0] https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by pigsinzen · 2023-04-30 · in Show HN: Frogmouth – A Markdown browser for the terminal

…a command-line MD reader today. I think it was the nth time I've looked it over. It's called glow : https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow I always come to the same conclusion. I don't need it. I don't need to remember to use (yet) another…

comment by O1111OOO · 2023-02-06 · in I wish Asciidoc was more popular

…and some management of MD files, but without link following or other interaction, there is glow: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by leephillips · 2022-12-17 · in Show HN: Textual Markdown – a Markdown “browser” in the terminal

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story by behnamoh · 2022-12-09 · 39 comments

…the markdown nicely ` https://mahdi.blog/raw/raw-permalinks-for-accessibility/ | glow -` [1]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by preisschild · 2022-07-28 · in You can read my blog posts using curl

You can set glow ( https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow ) as the markdown previewer in nnn if you use a customer opener.

comment by apjana · 2022-04-17 · in New(ish) command line tools

A new fave I recently discovered - render markdown in the terminal for easy reading (and proofing): https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by jasonpeacock · 2022-04-12 · in New(ish) command line tools

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story by rammy1234 · 2022-01-30 · 0 comments

…comfortable aws cli tool - glow as a command line markdown reader https://github.com/wallix/awless https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

comment by menjaprunes · 2021-04-20 · in Ask HN: Show me the sexy, sexy home page of your favorite free CLI project

Did you try these: - https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow - https://github.com/ttscoff/mdless - https://github.com/axiros/terminal_markdown_viewer - https://github.com/lunaryorn/mdcat - https://github.com/MichaelMure/mdr

comment by PhilippGille · 2020-10-25 · in Pandoc – A universal document converter

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