Syntax highlighting

Language-aware code block highlighting for every major language.

Inline images

Real pixels via Kitty / iTerm2 / Sixel where supported, Unicode half-blocks everywhere else.

Mermaid diagrams

Flowcharts, sequence diagrams, pie charts, and Gantt charts as ASCII art.

8 themes

Dark, Light, Dracula, Catppuccin, Nord, Tokyo Night, Gruvbox, Solarized. Or make your own.

File browser

Run ink . to browse and open markdown files in any directory.

Multi-tab

Open several files at once and switch between them with Tab.

Search

Full-text search with highlighted matches; cycle results with n/N.

Select & copy

v/V or a mouse drag selects text, y copies it. c copies a code block's raw source, Y the current section.

Open links by keyboard

Press f to label links, then a letter to open or follow them.

Math & emoji

Renders $math$ in code style and resolves :emoji: shortcodes.

Admonitions

GitHub-style NOTE, TIP, WARNING, IMPORTANT, and CAUTION blocks.

Wikilinks

[[page]] and [[page|text]] syntax for Obsidian vaults and wikis.

Presentation mode

Turn any markdown file into slides with --slides.

Works as a pager

ink --plain pages long docs through $PAGER, like bat.

Safe with untrusted files

Strips terminal escape sequences and never phones home for remote images by default.

Fast on big documents

Virtualized rendering and zero idle CPU. 5,000-line files scroll without lag.

Single binary

Built in Rust. No runtime dependencies. Fast startup.

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What it does