id = "mdcat" name = "mdcat" homepage = "https://github.com/BIRSAx2/mdcat" description = "Render CommonMark Markdown to text terminals." executables = ["mdcat", "mdless", "mdpick"] [dotfiles] # https://docs.rs/mdcat/latest/mdcat/config/fn.config_path.html — mdcat's # config_path respects XDG_CONFIG_HOME and otherwise uses ~/.config on Unix. paths = ["[configHome]/mdcat/config.toml"] secret = [] [commands] format = 1 label = "Render Markdown" description = "Render Markdown files to the terminal with mdcat. Image protocol, tab expansion, completions and terminal-detection options are left out." quality = "ai-draft" parser = { end_of_options = "--", interleave = "permute", long_equals = true, short_attached = true, short_bundles = false } [[commands.source]] id = "manual" kind = "manual" url = "https://github.com/BIRSAx2/mdcat/blob/main/mdcat.1.adoc" revision = "2026-10-27" evidence = """ -p --paginate -P --no-pager -c --no-colour --columns=_COLUMNS_ --full-width -l --local --theme=_THEME_ _THEME_ is one of `auto`, `dark`, `light`, `catppuccin-mocha`, `catppuccin-latte`, `gruvbox-dark`, `gruvbox-light`, `dracula`, `nord`, `solarized-dark`, or `solarized-light`. --list-themes --margin --smart-punctuation --emoji --frontmatter -w --watch --toc """ [[commands.field]] id = "files" label = "Markdown files" description = "Reads standard input when empty." type = "path" position = 0 multiple = true path = { kind = "file", role = "input" } sources = ["manual"] [[commands.field]] id = "paginate" label = "Use a pager" type = "boolean" option = ["--paginate", "-p"] sources = ["manual"] [[commands.field]] id = "theme" label = "Colour theme" type = "enum" option = ["--theme"] choices = [{ value = "auto", label = "Auto" }, { value = "dark", label = "Dark" }, { value = "light", label = "Light" }, { value = "catppuccin-mocha", label = "Catppuccin Mocha" }, { value = "catppuccin-latte", label = "Catppuccin Latte" }, { value = "gruvbox-dark", label = "Gruvbox Dark" }, { value = "gruvbox-light", label = "Gruvbox Light" }, { value = "dracula", label = "Dracula" }, { value = "nord", label = "Nord" }, { value = "solarized-dark", label = "Solarized Dark" }, { value = "solarized-light", label = "Solarized Light" }] sources = ["manual"] [[commands.field]] id = "columns" label = "Max columns" description = "0 disables line wrapping." type = "integer" option = ["--columns"] sources = ["manual"] [[commands.field]] id = "full_width" label = "Full terminal width" type = "boolean" option = ["--full-width"] sources = ["manual"] [[commands.field]] id = "local" label = "Local resources only" type = "boolean" option = ["--local", "-l"] sources = ["manual"] [[commands.field]] id = "no_colour" label = "No colours" type = "boolean" option = ["--no-colour", "-c"] sources = ["manual"] [[commands.field]] id = "margin" label = "Left margin" type = "boolean" option = ["--margin"] sources = ["manual"] [[commands.field]] id = "smart_punctuation" label = "Smart punctuation" type = "boolean" option = ["--smart-punctuation"] sources = ["manual"] [[commands.field]] id = "emoji" label = "Emoji shortcodes" type = "boolean" option = ["--emoji"] sources = ["manual"] [[commands.field]] id = "toc" label = "Table of contents" type = "boolean" option = ["--toc"] sources = ["manual"] [[commands.field]] id = "watch" label = "Watch and re-render" description = "Needs exactly one file; incompatible with --paginate." type = "boolean" option = ["--watch", "-w"] sources = ["manual"] [[commands.task]] id = "view" label = "View a file" fields = ["files", "theme"] required = ["files"] [[commands.task]] id = "live-preview" label = "Live preview" set = { watch = [true] } lock = ["watch"] fields = ["files", "watch", "theme"] required = ["files"] [[commands.group]] id = "basic" label = "Basic" fields = ["files", "theme", "paginate", "watch", "toc"] [[commands.group]] id = "advanced" label = "Advanced" fields = ["columns", "full_width", "local", "no_colour", "margin", "smart_punctuation", "emoji"]