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Markdown
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Markdown
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layout: post
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title: Markdown Support
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excerpt: A side effect of fancier help text
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---
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*(This change will be in the upcoming v0.11.0 release)*
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As part of the effort to polish the lnav TUI, I wanted to make the builtin
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help text look a bit nicer. The current help text is a plain text file with
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some ANSI escape sequences for colors. It's not easy to write or read. Since
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Markdown has become a dominant way to write this type of document, I figured
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I could use that and have the side benefit of allowing lnav to read Markdown
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docs. Fortunately, the [MD4C](https://github.com/mity/md4c) library exists.
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This library provides a nice event-driven parser for documents instead of
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just converting directly to HTML. In addition, document structure is now
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shown/navigable through the new breadcrumb bar at the top. I think the
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result is pretty nice:
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<script id="asciicast-2hx3UiyzOHQXBQOBf31ztKvHc"
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src="https://asciinema.org/a/2hx3UiyzOHQXBQOBf31ztKvHc.js"
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async>
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</script>
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## Viewing Markdown Files
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Files with an `.md` suffix will be considered as Markdown and will be
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parsed as such. As an example, here is lnav displaying its README.md file:
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<script id="asciicast-iw4rwddZNGCe3v8DyOfItERG9"
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src="https://asciinema.org/a/iw4rwddZNGCe3v8DyOfItERG9.js"
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async>
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</script>
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