UI, Layout & Content

Theme

Choose a default Textual theme:

theme: nord

Inspect the available names with:

hike themes list

Navigation and command line placement

navigation_visible: true
navigation_on_right: false
command_line_on_top: false

Sidebar sizing

sidebar_default_width_percent: 22
sidebar_min_width: 24
sidebar_max_width: 80
sidebar_max_width_percent: 45
sidebar_auto_fit: true

Responsive narrow-terminal behavior

responsive_auto_switch_narrow: true
responsive_narrow_width: 100
responsive_narrow_mode: content-only

Use sidebar-only if you want the navigation panel to take focus first on smaller terminals.

Front matter and quit behavior

show_front_matter: true
allow_traditional_quit: true

Markdown detection

markdown_extensions:
  - .md
  - .markdown
  - .mkdn

markdown_content_types:
  - text/plain
  - text/markdown
  - text/x-markdown