TL;DR — Quick Summary

mdcat renders Markdown in the terminal with syntax highlighting, clickable links, and inline images. Read README files, documentation, and notes without leaving the terminal.

mdcat makes Markdown beautiful in the terminal. Syntax highlighting, links, images — no browser needed.

Installation

# macOS
brew install mdcat

# Cargo
cargo install mdcat

Usage

# Render a file
mdcat README.md

# Pipe from stdin
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/user/repo/main/README.md | mdcat

# Paginated mode
mdless README.md

# Control width
mdcat --columns 80 README.md

Summary

  • mdcat renders Markdown in the terminal
  • Syntax highlighting for code blocks
  • Clickable links and inline images
  • mdless for paginated reading
  • Written in Rust — fast rendering