question: any suggestions for live markdown rendering?

[devidw]

tried glow and mdcat on macos but both don't seem to support streaming

[kardolus]

@devidw I haven't found anything that works for live markdown rendering. But this is a Go program that does markdown rendering: https://github.com/MichaelMure/go-term-markdown.

I was thinking of looking at the code. I am not sure how much work it would be to implement something like that into the CLI.

[devidw]

gotcha, ya i could not find anything either

for now i was able to hack something together by piping into this script, which uses glow and clears the output before each render: charmbracelet/glow#601 (comment)

[kardolus]

@devidw I finally did a deep dive into this :). I was inspired by that hack you shared and created a smoother script here:

https://github.com/kardolus/chatgpt-cli/blob/main/scripts/mdrender.sh

Clearing the console in a loop isn't great. My script doesn't do that. It's still a bit of a hack but it's smooth.

Try

chatgpt write a hello world program in Java | ./scripts/mdrender.sh

Let me know what you think!

[kardolus]

Fun in combination with the new prompt flag too :)

cat README.md | chatgpt -n --prompt ../prompts/summarize.md | ./scripts/mdrender.sh