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As I was griping above, you usually can't just view a Markdown file with formatting applied at all. I think MAYBE Notepad has been updated just recently to rend
by VerifiedReports 9mo ago
As I was griping above, you usually can't just view a Markdown file with formatting applied at all. I think MAYBE Notepad has been updated just recently to render it, but otherwise... you're looking at plain text with a bunch of formatting characters in it. Why? It's baffling. Where are the simple Markdown READERS?
- happyopossum 9mo agoYour plain text editor is the markdown reader. That’s the point.
- nullhole 9mo agoIt really would be nice to have a convenient renderer for it though. It's genuinely surprising something like firefox doesn't have a markdown reader builtin already.
- jdechko 9mo agoIf you’re on a Mac, I recommend qlmarkdown. It’s a customizable quick look renderer for markdown (md) files. https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown
- matijsvzuijlen 9mo agoI wrote one for my own use (on Linux): https://github.com/mvz/mdv https://github.com/mvz/mdv
- nacozarina 9mo agoand it looks like poo, that’s the other point
- VerifiedReports 9mo agoExactly. You can always count on someone to come back with, "That's why it's so great! You just read it in a plain-text editor!" Why does anyone have to point out how dumb it is to litter your "plain text" file with formatting characters that are never respected?
- VerifiedReports 9mo agoThen that's no point at all. You're not seeing the formatting that the embedded formatting characters call for, so why have them in there?