Frogmouth
Dev tools
markdown viewer
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
7 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.24.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Neat, fast and lightweight tool for reading Markdown
From 2 comments
I recently needed to render markdown to view some notes. Thought opening chrome w/ a plugin or VSCode felt similarly sluggish options to do such a simple task. Now a few weeks…
midland_trucker on HNI did add some vim-friendly bindings for switching the navigation panes on the left, but thinking about it not for the main viewer. Feels like an oversight now, good call. I’ll…
davepdotorg on HN
Objections
Rendering adds little beyond syntax highlighting; raw Markdown is already readable
From 1 comment
It's probably only me but isn't Markdown's main "selling point"/feature the raw files are human readable? Looking at the screenshots, the only thing the "rendering" provides seem…
fishywang on HN
Name is hard to recall for what it does
From 1 comment
This may just be a personal quirk, but many of these sorts of names to me seem to be one-way memorable. Like, if I see a future reference to "frogmouth" I probably will think "Oh…
linsomniac on HN
Requests
Obsidian markdown and wikilinks support
From 2 comments
Can you add support for Obsidian markdown?
kossamums on HN《Browser》 made me think of hypertext, which makes me wonder if it supports, or plans to support, [[wikilinks]] between Markdown files?
wcerfgba on HN
LaTeX math rendering
From 1 comment
Latex math rendering would be awesome
wendyshu on HN
Image support via Sixel
From 1 comment
I like it. Let's see how it feels over time. You might consider Sixel support as a way of doing images. There are a number of excellent libraries that support it.
kjs3 on HN
Vim keybindings for the main viewer
From 1 comment
Looks nice ! Can't install right now, does it have vim keybindings ?
johnchristopher on HN
Questions
Whether it can display Jupyter Markdown cells
From 1 comment
Could Frogmouth display Markdown cells in Jupyter Notebooks on the CLI? FWIW, IPython is built with Python Prompt Toolkit and Jupyter_console is IPython for non-python kernels;…
westurner on HN
Story behind the name
From 1 comment
Nice! Is there a story behind the name Frogmouth?
jlowin on HN
Alternatives named
Glow
From 2 comments
Nice idea! I’m excited to check it out. I write a lot of docs in Markdown and this could be a great way to browse them. Out of curiosity, have you seen glow[0]? [0]…
pigsinzen on HNThis is neat. I recently wanted something similar so this is what I did: 1. Zellij split panes 2. Left pane: Helix editor with built-in Marksman (markdown LSP) support. 3. Right…
bpshaver on HN
Terminal browsers such as w3m, lynx, elinks
From 2 comments
There's a few terminal browsers like w3m, browsh and links that should work for many basic HTML pages.
dharmab on HNI've found elinks to be really good. It preserves colors and has really nice navigation controls for interactive use (you can press dot to toggle numbered links). Here is a…
PhilipRoman on HN
Baca for epubs
From 1 comment
Baca might interest you: https://github.com/wustho/baca
davepdotorg on HN