glow

MIT Markdown TUI pager from Charm

Rust / Terminal · OSS/MIT · 27.7k

Reviewed 2026-09-10 · last push 2026-10-05 · repo checked 2026-10-19

What's Good

MIT. charmbracelet/glow. Renders local or remote Markdown with Charm styling, TUI navigation, and stash/browse flows. Great for READMEs, ADRs, and docs you refuse to open in a browser mid-SSH.

The Catch

Vs bat (generic syntax highlight cat): glow is Markdown-*first* presentation, not a drop-in for every source file. Heavier than bat for one-off file peeks. Stash/cloud-adjacent features are optional — local files are the core job.

Verdict

MIT Markdown TUI. Free forever; open the README in-terminal instead of leaving the SSH session.

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Markdown

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HTML

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