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Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview without having to be pressing Contrl + P all the time. The lack of good desktop Markdow

by omegote 11y ago

Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview without having to be pressing Contrl + P all the time. The lack of good desktop Markdown editors used to haunt me, until I started building one my own and realized how poor the support for Markdown in C++ was.

stdbrouw 11y ago
For me, the point of Markdown (and LaTeX for that matter) is that I can focus on just the writing, not what my document will look like.
- atmosx 11y ago
  Really, you can focus on writing with LaTeX? Are we talking about paragraph after paragraph of text or scientific writing with images and formulas and code, because after writing my thesis in LaTeX my experience has been different. I've lost a huge amount of time trying to adjust images, debugging compilations errors, etc. Of course the document looks clean as it should and stands out from the rest, but still, I wasn't able to focus on writing, I had to always double-check for errors. VIM plugin for latex helped a great deal.
2bluesc 11y ago
> Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview Atom has this with the "Markdown Preview" that pops-up with SHIFT + CTRL + M. It does most of what I want today, but still feels lacking.
- res0nat0r 11y ago
  I've also been using Mou for a good while that gives you a live preview as you edit: http://25.io/mou/ http://25.io/mou/
  - atmosx 11y ago
    I used Mou, VIM and MacDown in the past. Vim of course doesn't have a preview (sic), but both MacDown and Mou offer previews. http://macdown.uranusjr.com/ http://macdown.uranusjr.com/
notzorbo2 11y ago
> Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview Perhaps devd¹ with livereload is a good option here? ¹) http://corte.si/posts/devd/intro/ http://corte.si/posts/devd/intro/
zubspace 11y ago
Give haroopad a try. It's a very young project, but it works quite well. The editor and live preview are side-by-side: http://pad.haroopress.com/ http://pad.haroopress.com/ What makes markdown annoying for me are the different flavours of markdown. Github is different from Mediawiki is different from... and so on. I find myself constantly looking up syntax just to be sure I wrote it correctly..
abnerlee 11y ago
> Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview try http://typora.io http://typora.io ?
masukomi 11y ago
2 things: 1) Markdown was intentionally designed to be readable without preview. 2) check out the Marked 2 app. It's basically a preview engine with lots of good export, formatting, and metadata (about your text) options.

by omegote 11y ago

stdbrouw 11y ago

For me, the point of Markdown (and LaTeX for that matter) is that I can focus on just the writing, not what my document will look like.

atmosx 11y ago
Really, you can focus on writing with LaTeX? Are we talking about paragraph after paragraph of text or scientific writing with images and formulas and code, because after writing my thesis in LaTeX my experience has been different. I've lost a huge amount of time trying to adjust images, debugging compilations errors, etc. Of course the document looks clean as it should and stands out from the rest, but still, I wasn't able to focus on writing, I had to always double-check for errors. VIM plugin for latex helped a great deal.

2bluesc 11y ago

> Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview Atom has this with the "Markdown Preview" that pops-up with SHIFT + CTRL + M. It does most of what I want today, but still feels lacking.

res0nat0r 11y ago
I've also been using Mou for a good while that gives you a live preview as you edit: http://25.io/mou/ http://25.io/mou/
- atmosx 11y ago
  I used Mou, VIM and MacDown in the past. Vim of course doesn't have a preview (sic), but both MacDown and Mou offer previews. http://macdown.uranusjr.com/ http://macdown.uranusjr.com/

notzorbo2 11y ago

> Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview Perhaps devd¹ with livereload is a good option here? ¹) http://corte.si/posts/devd/intro/ http://corte.si/posts/devd/intro/

zubspace 11y ago

Give haroopad a try. It's a very young project, but it works quite well. The editor and live preview are side-by-side: http://pad.haroopress.com/ http://pad.haroopress.com/ What makes markdown annoying for me are the different flavours of markdown. Github is different from Mediawiki is different from... and so on. I find myself constantly looking up syntax just to be sure I wrote it correctly..

abnerlee 11y ago

> Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview try http://typora.io http://typora.io ?

masukomi 11y ago

2 things: 1) Markdown was intentionally designed to be readable without preview. 2) check out the Marked 2 app. It's basically a preview engine with lots of good export, formatting, and metadata (about your text) options.