see is a powerful file visualization tool for the terminal, offering advanced code viewing capabilities, Markdown rendering, and more.
It provides syntax highlighting, emoji support, and image rendering capabilities, offering a visually appealing way to view various file types directly in your console.
see serves as a powerful code viewer for the terminal, providing an efficient way to review code directly in your console with advanced syntax highlighting. It renders Markdown files, and can also read Markdown content from standard input.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- State-of-the-art code viewing capabilities with superior syntax highlighting for a wide range of programming languages, powered by tree-sitter.
- More accurate, context-aware syntax highlighting.
- Minimalistic rich Markdown rendering in the terminal.
- Emoji support.
- Image rendering (when possible).
- Clickable links (in supported terminals).
- Table formatting.
- Blockquote styling.
- Good Markdown support:
- Rich text formatting (bold, italic, strikethrough).
- Headers and lists.
- Code blocks with syntax highlighting.
- Tables.
- Blockquotes.
- Images (when supported by the terminal).
- Clickable links.
Website: github.com/guilhermeprokisch/see
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Developer: Guilherme Prokisch
License: MIT License

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