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If I could work on my documents in the terminal on some machines while in graphical OS's on others... why yes please.",[111,115],{"value":112,"source":63,"evidence":113},"How are images shown when found in Markdown files",[114],{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},{"value":116,"source":63,"evidence":117},"Which macOS terminal is used in the demo",[118],{"id":119,"by":120,"text":121},"34029652","jack-bodine","Does anyone know what MacOS terminal is being used in the demo video and screenshots?",[123,131,138,142,149],{"value":124,"source":63,"evidence":125},"Glow",[126,130],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"34030168","leephillips","Nice project. You can also do ``` pandoc -i Readme.md | w3m -T text\u002Fhtml ``` if you need web links, etc., to work. 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