Package: mc Version: 3:4.8.24-2 Severity: wishlist I suggest that mc include support for proper viewing of Markdown files out of the box. They are ubiquitious these days, due to the popularity of GitHub.
I'm currently using this snippet in $HOME/.config/mc.ext: # Markdown shell/i/.md View=pandoc %f | lynx -stdin mc gurus can likely come up with something better - there are a bunch of suggestions here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4140/markdown-viewer -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages mc depends on: ii libc6 2.30-8 ii libext2fs2 1.45.6-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.64.2-1 ii libgpm2 1.20.7-6 ii libslang2 2.3.2-4 ii libssh2-1 1.8.0-2.1 ii mc-data 3:4.8.24-2 Versions of packages mc recommends: ii mime-support 3.64 ii perl 5.30.2-1 ii unzip 6.0-25 Versions of packages mc suggests: pn arj <none> ii bzip2 1.0.8-2 pn catdvi | texlive-binaries <none> pn dbview <none> pn djvulibre-bin <none> pn epub-utils <none> ii evince [pdf-viewer] 3.36.1-1 ii file 1:5.38-5 ii genisoimage 9:1.1.11-3.1 pn gv <none> ii imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick] 8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1+b2 pn libaspell-dev <none> ii lynx 2.9.0dev.5-1 ii mupdf [pdf-viewer] 1.16.1+ds1-2 pn odt2txt <none> ii poppler-utils 0.71.0-6 ii python 2.7.17-2 pn python-boto <none> pn python-tz <none> ii qpdfview [pdf-viewer] 0.4.18-1+b1 ii zathura-pdf-poppler [pdf-viewer] 0.3.0-1 ii zip 3.0-11+b1 -- no debconf information