# Installer mdv avec Homebrew

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de mdv pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:mdv
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mdv
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:mdv
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.7.5
- **Résumé source:** Styled terminal markdown viewer
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/axiros/terminal_markdown_viewer>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- mdv (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.7.5
## Historique du projet et usages

mdv, from the terminal_markdown_viewer repository, is a Python styled Markdown viewer for terminals. It targets remote editing, browserless environments, CLI help output, and colored reading of Markdown in 256-color terminals.

### Historique du projet

The public GitHub repository was created on 2015-07-12. The README explains the motivation as avoiding browser context switches while editing Markdown remotely, especially in larger mkdocs projects or constrained hop-machine environments.

The project began as a proof-of-concept hack, and the README is candid that complex Markdown and inline HTML are outside its strongest use cases. Over time it added themes, tables, admonitions, file and directory monitoring, source-code highlighting, library usage, and Python 3 support.

### Historique d'adoption

The README documents `pip install mdv`, a MacPorts entry, and FreeBSD package availability. The input package-manager facts show Homebrew packaging for the same executable name.

GitHub metadata showed sustained attention for a terminal Markdown renderer, with more than a thousand stars and over a hundred forks by 2026.

### Modes d'utilisation

CLI users run `mdv [OPTIONS] MDFILE` to render Markdown with themes, link styles, source-code highlighting, width control, file monitoring, directory monitoring, and optional HTML output.

The README also documents inline library use from Python, environment variables `MDV_THEME` and `MDV_CODE_THEME`, YAML CLI-argument defaults in `$HOME/.mdv`, and executable Python customization in `$HOME/.mdv.py`.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

mdv matters in package-manager culture as one of the older terminal Markdown viewers that made README rendering, colored CLI docs, and remote-server Markdown inspection feasible without Node, Pandoc, or a browser.

Its README's own alternatives section places it among JavaScript terminal renderers, Pandoc-to-browser or man-page pipelines, and vimcat, while arguing for a Python package that handles tables, admonitions, and themes in a terminal.

### Chronologie

- 2015: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2016: README update noted pip installation, setup.py-based dependencies, light-theme work, stdin support, wrapping fixes, and test additions.
- 2018: README update noted merged PRs, Python 3 support, header numbering, and simpler config handling.
- 2023: README update noted release 1.7.5 and a mailto link fix.

### Related projects

- The README discusses msee, ansidown, ansimd, nd, Pandoc with terminal browsers or groff/man output, and vimcat as alternatives.
- The README credits Pygments, tabulate, and Python Markdown as supporting projects.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/axiros/terminal_markdown_viewer>
- <https://github.com/axiros/terminal_markdown_viewer#readme>
- source_facts.homepage
- source_facts.package-manager


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.mdv, ~/.mdv.py

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mdv.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mdv.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph