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Dev tools · December 17, 2022

Textual Markdown – a Markdown “browser” in the terminal

Hi HN, This is a TUI app which displays interactive Markdown documents. Interactive in the sense that you can scroll code fences / tables / and click links. There's a Table of Contents extracted from the MD, and a very rudimentary browser like forward + back. I'm thinking it could be the starting point for a variety of hypertext like applications in the terminal. Very much a work in progress.

Textual Markdown – a Markdown “browser” in the terminal launched on December 17, 2022 with 254 votes, #104 of 3,688 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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In plain words

Textual Markdown is a terminal-based application that displays and navigates interactive Markdown documents. Users can scroll through code blocks and tables, click links, and jump between sections using an auto-generated table of contents and basic forward and back navigation. Designed for developers who work in the terminal, it serves as a foundation for building hypertext-like applications without leaving the command line.

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