glow

glow

render markdown on the command line

curl -fsSL https://unflab.app/get | sh -s -- glow

Installs to ~/.local/bin. Add --prefix /usr/local/bin to
put it somewhere else, or --uninstall to remove it.

Why it’s here

No dependency problem to solve — it’s here so it installs the same way as everything else.

Details

Built from that exact tarball, with its SHA-256 pinned in the
recipe. The binary links against nothing outside /usr/lib
and /System/, checked in CI before release.

glow renders markdown in the terminal: headings, tables, code blocks
and links, styled to fit a dark or light background. Give it a file, a
directory to browse, a URL, or - for standard input.

glow README.md
glow -p README.md          # through a pager
curl -fsSL https://example.com/notes.md | glow -
glow                       # browse the markdown in this directory

Run glow --help or man glow for the full set of options.

Install

./install.sh                      # into ~/.local/bin
./install.sh --prefix /usr/local/bin
./install.sh --uninstall

Configuration

Nothing is written at install. glow config creates and opens a config
file under ~/.config/glow/ if you want one.

Shell completions

Completions for zsh, bash and fish are installed to each shell’s
conventional directory. Nothing is sourced and no rc file is edited:

• bash — ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions, found
  automatically by bash-completion 2.x.

• fish — ~/.local/share/fish/vendor_completions.d, found
  automatically.

• zsh — ~/.local/share/zsh/site-functions, which is not in the
  default fpath. Add it in ~/.zshrc, above the line that runs
  compinit:

  fpath=(~/.local/share/zsh/site-functions $fpath)
  autoload -Uz compinit && compinit
  

  Appending to fpath after compinit has run silently does nothing.

About this build

Compiled with CGO_ENABLED=0 from upstream’s source release, whose
checksum is verified against the checksums.txt upstream publishes
beside it. A single binary linking nothing but macOS’s own libSystem.
The man page and completions are generated from that binary.

Upstream also publishes prebuilt macOS binaries; this package exists so
glow installs the same way as everything else here.

Upstream

• Source: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
• Version: 3.0.0
• Licence: MIT (see LICENSE)

glow is Charm’s work. unflab only compiles and packages it.