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mdview markdown viewer

July 07, 2017 — BarryK
Recently I uploaded my "oe-qky-src" to github, and installed Smartgit to manage it locally:
http://bkhome.org/news/201706/oe-ky-src-on-github.html

Then I realised, there is no viewer for markdown files. Markdown is the format used for readme files in github.
There isn't even mime type handling for markdown.

I determined that the correct mime type is "text/markdown":
https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/markdown

And fantastic, we have an "in house" markdown viewer, named 'mdview', created by jamesbond. This is a GUI viewer, but also is a converter on the commandline, to formats such as html.

jamesbond's mdview project site:
https://chiselapp.com/user/jamesbond/repository/mdview3/home

Puppy forum thread discussing mdview:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=98906

woofQ is now setup to recognise the mime type, ROX-Filer will display a special icon, and click on a *.md file will open it in mdview.

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