Hike

The run of writing new terminal-based tools that I want still keeps going. First there was Braindrop, then there was Peplum, and now, released today, there's Hike.

Hike is yet another terminal-based Markdown browser. While it's far from the first, and unlikely to be the last, it's mine and it looks and works exactly how I need. Perhaps it'll be your sort of thing too?

This initial release has a bunch of handy features, including things like:

• A command line where file names, URLs and commands can be entered.
• A persistent history for the command line.
• A local file browser.
• A simple bookmarking system.
• A browsing history.
• Commands for quickly loading and viewing files held on GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg and Bitbucket.

As there's a lot to discover in the application, I've tried to make the help screen as comprehensive as possible:

and there's also the command palette to help with discovering commands and the keys that are associated with them:

Once again, themes are supported so no matter your taste you should find something that's easy on your eyes:

Hike is licensed GPL-3.0 and available via GitHub and also via PyPi. If you have an environment that has pipx installed you should be able to get up and going with:

$ pipx install hike

It can also be installed with Homebrew by tapping davep/homebrew and then installing hike:

$ brew tap davep/homebrew
$ brew install hike

Expect to see more updates in the near future; this is very much an ongoing tinker project.