sudo npm install -g markdown-preview giving following error

npm ERR! 404 'yuanchuan' is not in the npm registry.
npm ERR! 404 You should bug the author to publish it

Say I am in /var/www, and I want to preview /var/www/Boombox/README.md.

I run

$ markdown-preview Boombox/README.md

There is no error, but http://localhost:3333/README.md shows a blank page.

Is there any good way to get this to work?

Also, interestingly, if I cd to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/markdown-preview, and attempt to preview my README with an absolute filename...

$ cd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/markdown-preview
$ markdown-preview /var/www/Boombox/README.md 

now http://localhost:3333/README.md shows the preview for markdown-preview/README.md! Basically, the path is stripped from the filename argument. This seems like a separate issue, but I'm not sure.

I get the following error when I try to run markdown-preview

C:\Users\Name\Documents\mips-rsa>markdown-preview README.md

C:\Users\Name\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\markdown-preview\lib\parser.js:9
var converter = new showdown.converter();
                ^
TypeError: undefined is not a function
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Name\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\markdown-preview\lib\parser.js:9:17)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Name\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\markdown-preview\lib\server.js:13:17)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)

I use Windows 8.1 x64
The installation appears to work fine

C:\Users\Name>npm install -g markdown-preview
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/markdown-preview
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/markdown-preview
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/open
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/node-watch
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/showdown
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/mime
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/mime
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/node-watch
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/showdown
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/open
C:\Users\Name\AppData\Roaming\npm\markdown-preview -> C:\Users\Name\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\markdown-preview\bin\markd
own-preview
[email protected] C:\Users\Name\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\markdown-preview
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected]

Adding Github Flavored Markdown would be a nice touch. Right now I am using your previewer with vim for simple markup previewing. It makes it nice and lightweight for my needs vs the much more complex solutions. Just a thought.

First of all thanks for making this awesome tool.

Could it be possible to add a --watch option for this CLI tool, so we can just refresh browser and see the changes?

It would be great if the tool told you what was wrong when it tried to markdown the file.

Among all the markdown parsers and previewers I've encountered, this one is the best.
But I was wondering, in https://stackedit.io (source code), @benweet implements at least one feature most markdwon flavours don't, it's "LaTeX mathematical expressions using MathJax". I find this and some other features extremely useful but I wish I could use them with my own text-editor. I think that adding stackedit as a parser for markdown-preview will be great. Unfortunately I don't know enough JavaScript to make a PR, yet I couldn't not resist sharing the idea.

I'll be glad to hear your thoughts.

$ markdown-preview -h
returns error: option-h, --highlight ' argument missing`.

This is because the -h option is mapped to the --highlight argument, instead of the --help argument like the docs say.

See the --help output:

$ markdown-preview --help
  Usage: markdown-preview [options] <filename>
  Options:
    -h, --help                   output usage information
    -V, --version                output the version number
    -m, --marked                 use marked to parse markdown
    -p, --port <port>            server port (defaults to 3333)
    -c, --css <name>             use customize css file for styling
    -h, --highlight <highlight>  set highlight style

Let me know if you need more info.

Please let me choose which browser to open :) I'd like to have chromium open with the --new-window flag, but don't want to set that as default in xdg. You can simply pass that as second parameter to open().

Using node v0.10.5 and markdown-preview v0.2.6 on Windows 7.

I am unable to open non-local files specified with the full-path.
Local files open just fine, but any file specified with a relative or full-path return Cannot open file <name>. (where <name> is the filename).

Looking at the source, the filename is set via

var filename = process.argv[2] && path.join(process.cwd(), process.argv[2])

This is equivalent to var filename = path.join(process.cwd(), process.argv[2]) since the parameter is always truthy.

There is no check to see if the file exists as provided.