Going mad(1)

mad(1) is a tiny tool that allows you to view markdown manual pages. I’m a huge fan of man in general, but the format is pretty annoying and often converted from markdown, textile etc anyway. The output man produces is also pretty bad in my opinion, mainly whitespace issues.

markdown man page

This is just a quick 5 minute hack so follow if you’re interested or open an issue if you have some ideas! It would be great to allow customization of colors, formatting, blah blah. Here’s another screenshot:

jade