Agent Of Empires Daily: Markdown Comes to the Diff Viewer
A single pull request brings rendered Markdown viewing to the native diff viewer, closing a long-standing gap with the web experience. The change spans input handling, rendering logic, and mode display across the terminal UI.
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- Show: Agent Of Empires Daily
- Published: 2026-08-09T20:01:09Z
- Audio duration: PT2M1S
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Good morning. It's August 9th, 2026, and this is Agent Of Empires Daily.
Today's activity centers on one meaningful pull request: Markdown files now render as formatted prose in the native diff viewer, rather than showing up as raw text.
This is PR 3294 from alloutflo, resolving issue 3091. The core idea: when you open a Markdown file in the diff viewer, you now see it rendered by default. Pressing the "m" key toggles back to the raw diff view. That toggle state is reflected consistently across the pane title, the footer hint, and the help overlay,…
A few details worth remembering. The feature recognizes both dot-M-D and dot-Markdown extensions, and it does so case-insensitively, so naming quirks won't break rendering. For deleted Markdown files, the viewer now shows the base content rendered — matching how the web viewer already behaves. That consistency…
This is a broad-touching change — it hits input handling, rendering, and mode logic — which means it's worth a careful look if you're working anywhere near the diff viewer's file-type detection or view-state management. The PR picked up one review comment, so it's not yet fully signed off.
What's next: watch for merge and any…