NMdown

NMDown is a minimal terminal-based Markdown editor built with Python 3 and ncurses. It offers a clean editing experience with live syntax highlighting, autosave, and in-terminal search — all inside your terminal window.

Features

• Markdown syntax highlighting (headers, bold, italic, code, lists, links, etc.)
• Live character count in the footer
• Header/footer UI with consistent styling
• Autosave every 30 seconds with a .bak backup file
• Flash message confirmation after autosave
• In-editor search (Ctrl+F) with next (Ctrl+N) and previous (Ctrl+P) navigation
• Safe cursor and rendering logic (handles terminal resizing and wide characters)

⌨️ Keybindings

Usage

You'll be prompted to enter a filename. If the file exists, it will be loaded. If not, a new file is created.

Installation

Install via pip

pip install mnmdown

Or clone from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/bearenbey/nmdown.git
cd nmdown
pip install .

# Run
nmdown

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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