mhr shows a markdown file in a native window and re-renders it every time the file changes on disk. Your scroll position stays where it was. There is no editing surface, and mhr never writes to the file it opens.
It is built for reading files you did not write, such as a plan produced by an AI agent or a README from a repository you just cloned:
It renders GitHub Flavored Markdown, including tables, task lists, footnotes and alerts, plus syntax-highlighted code blocks, math converted to MathML, Mermaid diagrams and front matter. Images do not display, because mhr reads only the single file you name.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
If you’re running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) or later, including Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.
For versions of Ubuntu between 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), as well as Ubuntu flavours that don’t include snap by default, snap can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre by searching for snapd.
Alternatively, snapd can be installed from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install Markdown Hot Reload, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install markdown-hot-reload
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
Interested to find out more about snaps? Want to publish your own application? Visit snapcraft.io now.