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I am working on a remote server that only has a terminal support. There are certain markdown files that I would like to read. However, as I don't have a GUI support, I am in need of a markdown reader/ something similar. The server has lynx installed. So, even if you can suggest some extension to lynx, it will work!

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You can think of converting it to html with some tool like pandoc, then read the html with lynx.

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Markdown is already in the most readable form for a console by design. Lynx displays HTML lists as bullet points using asterisks -- exactly the same way as you write Markdown manually.

tl;dr: What you need is known as a "text editor". Nothing more.

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Consoles can display text in bold, and with inverted foreground/background, and most consoles can even display in color. This could provides for something more readable than displaying asterisks and underscores surrounding bold and italicized text, and hugely more readable than displaying backticks surrounding inline code-formatted text. While markdown is reasonably easy to read, it's decidedly not "the most readable form" to read documents in a terminal. – Eliah Kagan Aug 4 '12 at 3:41
Why not try a text editor with syntax highlighting? Vim is great for this. Just :set ft=markdown if it doesn't automatically recognize it. – Jon Aug 6 '12 at 5:53

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