There's a couple of md syntax highlighters for vim, that show rendered version (e.g. this) and hide the markdown syntax, unless your cursor's on it (e.g. this

There's a couple of md syntax highlighters for vim, that show rendered version (e.g. this) and hide the markdown syntax, unless your cursor's on it (e.g. this *). Esp neat for links, showing text without url. TBH I haven't used it as an editor, just to read md offline (e.g. curl a github readme.md).