MowlView 1.6.3
Description
MowlView – Markdown viewer (Lister plugin) for Total Commander, 32 and 64 bitMowlView shows Markdown documents in Total Commander's Lister (F3) the way they are meant to look: with headings, tables, code, images and links – or, at the press of a key, as source code with syntax highlighting. Native and fast, no browser engine, no runtime, nothing to install besides the plugin.
Supported files
- Markdown: .md, .markdown, .mdown, .mkd, .mkdn, .mdwn, .mdtxt, .mdtext, .mdx, .livemd
- R Markdown and Quarto: .rmd, .qmd (YAML front matter as a collapsible box)
- Jupyter notebooks: .ipynb (Markdown cells, code cells with execution count, text and image outputs)
- Gemini Gemtext: .gmi, .gemini
Features
- CommonMark with the GitHub extensions: tables, task lists, strikethrough, autolinks, footnotes and alerts (NOTE, TIP, IMPORTANT, WARNING, CAUTION).
- Inline HTML and HTML blocks: kbd, sub, sup, centred images and collapsible details sections.
- Syntax highlighting in code blocks (C/C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, JSON, diff and many more).
- Pictures from local files: PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, ICO (WebP/HEIC with the Windows codecs), scaled in high quality.
- Two views: Preview (Ctrl+1) and Code (Ctrl+2) with syntax highlighting and optional word wrap (Ctrl+W).
- Clickable links: jumps within the document, other files and web addresses; "Go to heading" in the context menu.
- Right-to-left text (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian) is detected per paragraph and gets its own font.
- Text selection with the mouse, Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C; search with Total Commander's Find (F7).
- Zoom with Ctrl+plus/minus or Ctrl+mouse wheel, Ctrl+0 resets.
- Selectable fonts for text, right-to-left text and code.
- Light and dark design: automatic like Windows, or fixed; Windows 11 look.
- Status bar with format, encoding and word or line count.
- Text encodings: UTF-8, UTF-16 (with or without BOM), Windows-1252.
- User interface in English and German (follows the Windows language).
Installation
Open MowlView.zip in Total Commander and confirm the installation. Settings are stored in MowlView.ini next to the plugin.
Requirements
Total Commander 32 or 64 bit, Windows 10 or 11.
Developer: Ali Naderi – digitalent.dev
Freeware: free to use and to pass on unmodified; selling is not allowed.
What’s new
1.6.3 (2026-11-04)
- Print margins: the "Print margins" entry is removed from the context menu; the print settings of Total Commander apply. PrintMargins in MowlView.ini (in mm) still overrides them.
1.6.2 (2026-11-04)
- Printing: every page now has its number ("1 / 5") at the bottom (switch off with PrintPageNumbers=0 in MowlView.ini or in the context menu)
- Print margins: context menu > Print margins (page setup dialog) or PrintMargins in MowlView.ini (in mm); they win over the margins to Total Commander passes
1.6.1 (2026-11-04)
- SVG pictures: badges (e.g. shields.io) and other SVG images are now drawn, both from the internet and from local files. Needs Windows 10 (1703) or later.
1.6.0 (2026-10-31)
- Printing: File > Print opens the printer dialog; the document is printed in light colors on white paper and broken between lines (in source view the source is printed)
1.5.1 (2026-10-30)
- Picture titles as tooltip: the title of a picture (, <img title="…">) is shown as a tooltip, also on the placeholder of a picture that is not loaded. A picture inside a link shows its own title first, otherwise the link's title.
- Fix: the tooltips for link titles introduced in 1.5.0 did not appear. They work now.
1.5.0 (2026-10-30)
- Link titles as tooltip: [text](url "Title") and <a title="…"> show the title as a tooltip when the mouse is over the link.
- Pictures from the internet: new switch Pictures from the internet (top right in the preview, also in the context menu). Off by default: a placeholder with the alt text is shown and nothing is downloaded. When switched on, https pictures are loaded in the background (up to 10 MB each). The setting is saved in MowlView.ini.
1.4.0 (2026-10-30)
Heading ids in parentheses: ## Title (#my-id) now works like ## Title {#my-id}, so links like [text](#my-id) jump to the heading. The id is hidden in the displayed heading.
1.3.0 (2026-10-30)
- Internal links: [test](#test "test") already worked and jumps to a heading whose generated anchor is test. A heading written as ## test (#test) gets the anchor test-test, so that link went nowhere. You can now set the anchor explicitly with ## test {#test}, and the link then jumps there.
- Text cursor: click into the text or press Ctrl+K (also in the context menu as "Text cursor") to get a blinking cursor. Move it with the arrow keys, Ctrl+arrows (by word), Home/End, Ctrl+Home/End and PgUp/PgDn. Shift extends the selection. Until you click into the text or press Ctrl+K, the keys scroll as before.
1.2.0 (2026-10-30)
Buttons: the Preview/Code switch and the Word wrap switch can now sit at the top (default), in the status bar next to the info button, or be hidden – Buttons in the context menu (Buttons in MowlView.ini)
Theme: new choice Like Total Commander (follows Total Commander's dark mode only)
1.1.0 (2026-10-26)
- Flowcharts: Mermaid diagrams (flowchart / graph) in ```mermaid code blocks are now drawn as pictures – top-down, bottom-up, left-right and right-left, the usual node shapes (rectangle, rounded, stadium, circle, diamond, hexagon, cylinder, subroutine and more), solid, dotted and thick links with arrows, labels on links, subgraph groups, style and classDef
- Light and dark design, scaled with zoom and display scaling
- Text that is not a flowchart (other Mermaid diagram types) stays a normal code block
- Print margins: the "Print margins" entry is removed from the context menu; the print settings of Total Commander apply. PrintMargins in MowlView.ini (in mm) still overrides them.
1.6.2 (2026-11-04)
- Printing: every page now has its number ("1 / 5") at the bottom (switch off with PrintPageNumbers=0 in MowlView.ini or in the context menu)
- Print margins: context menu > Print margins (page setup dialog) or PrintMargins in MowlView.ini (in mm); they win over the margins to Total Commander passes
1.6.1 (2026-11-04)
- SVG pictures: badges (e.g. shields.io) and other SVG images are now drawn, both from the internet and from local files. Needs Windows 10 (1703) or later.
1.6.0 (2026-10-31)
- Printing: File > Print opens the printer dialog; the document is printed in light colors on white paper and broken between lines (in source view the source is printed)
1.5.1 (2026-10-30)
- Picture titles as tooltip: the title of a picture (, <img title="…">) is shown as a tooltip, also on the placeholder of a picture that is not loaded. A picture inside a link shows its own title first, otherwise the link's title.
- Fix: the tooltips for link titles introduced in 1.5.0 did not appear. They work now.
1.5.0 (2026-10-30)
- Link titles as tooltip: [text](url "Title") and <a title="…"> show the title as a tooltip when the mouse is over the link.
- Pictures from the internet: new switch Pictures from the internet (top right in the preview, also in the context menu). Off by default: a placeholder with the alt text is shown and nothing is downloaded. When switched on, https pictures are loaded in the background (up to 10 MB each). The setting is saved in MowlView.ini.
1.4.0 (2026-10-30)
Heading ids in parentheses: ## Title (#my-id) now works like ## Title {#my-id}, so links like [text](#my-id) jump to the heading. The id is hidden in the displayed heading.
1.3.0 (2026-10-30)
- Internal links: [test](#test "test") already worked and jumps to a heading whose generated anchor is test. A heading written as ## test (#test) gets the anchor test-test, so that link went nowhere. You can now set the anchor explicitly with ## test {#test}, and the link then jumps there.
- Text cursor: click into the text or press Ctrl+K (also in the context menu as "Text cursor") to get a blinking cursor. Move it with the arrow keys, Ctrl+arrows (by word), Home/End, Ctrl+Home/End and PgUp/PgDn. Shift extends the selection. Until you click into the text or press Ctrl+K, the keys scroll as before.
1.2.0 (2026-10-30)
Buttons: the Preview/Code switch and the Word wrap switch can now sit at the top (default), in the status bar next to the info button, or be hidden – Buttons in the context menu (Buttons in MowlView.ini)
Theme: new choice Like Total Commander (follows Total Commander's dark mode only)
1.1.0 (2026-10-26)
- Flowcharts: Mermaid diagrams (flowchart / graph) in ```mermaid code blocks are now drawn as pictures – top-down, bottom-up, left-right and right-left, the usual node shapes (rectangle, rounded, stadium, circle, diamond, hexagon, cylinder, subroutine and more), solid, dotted and thick links with arrows, labels on links, subgraph groups, style and classDef
- Light and dark design, scaled with zoom and display scaling
- Text that is not a flowchart (other Mermaid diagram types) stays a normal code block
Previous versions
- 1.6.2 4 Nov 2026 Download 644 KB
- 1.6.1 4 Nov 2026 Download 615 KB
- 1.6.0 31 Oct 2026 Download 599 KB
- 1.5.1 30 Oct 2026 Download 597 KB
- 1.5.0 30 Oct 2026 Download 595 KB
- 1.4.0 30 Oct 2026 Download 578 KB
- 1.3.0 30 Oct 2026 Download 578 KB
- 1.2.0 30 Oct 2026 Download 570 KB
- 1.1.0 26 Oct 2026 Download 569 KB
- 1.0.0 24 Oct 2026 Download 474 KB
