Looking for a markdown editor that shows either the markdown text, or the (configurable) rendered version.
Looking for a markdown editor that shows either the markdown text, or the (configurable) rendered version.
I use geditfor most of my text editing, but markdown support is very limited.
Things I've tried:
- vscode, too heavy and intrusive
- Google docs, only renders, doesn't show the plain text, need to manually export to see markdown
- Eclipse, haven't actually tried markdown, but I have no doubt that it's supported, but heavier than anything else
- atom, no longer developed last time I checked
- online editor, don't want to share my text and functionality is poor
- type markdown, save it and render with pandoc, lots of effort, but the results are good
Over to you.
Codium with a markdown plugin gives both edit and preview with syntax highlighting. Add in Genie extension with a chatgpt api key and you can really do some cool stuff
Emacs's Markdown mode has two options for preview:
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C-c C-c p(Control-C Control-C p) runsmarkdown-preview, which will open a preview in a new window -
C-c C-c lrunsmarkdown-live-preview mode, which will show an updated-as you edit preview next to the text.
In addition to built-in functionality, in my emacs setup, I also personally bind
C-c a kto run Make. In myinit.el:(global-set-key (kbd "C-c a k") 'compile)That way, if you have any sort of project -- which could hypothetically be a Markdown file -- and a Makefile for it in the same directory, it'll build it. An example Makefile:
all: foo.pdf %.pdf: %.md pandoc -f markdown -t pdf $< -o $@Editing
foo.mdin emacs and hittingC-c a kwill regenerate the pdf usingpandocwith that setup. It sounds like you're familiar withpandoc.If you have
evincerunning on foo.pdf, it'll monitor changes to the displayed pdf file, and then just update its display if the file changes.-
There are a few good ones I can recommend, depending on what experience are you looking for (programmer, writer, simple note-taking).
Apostrophe would be the first, better for freestyle writing IMO; and then in no particular order I'd recommend Formiko which seems to work wonders for technical / programming-related writing, Remarkable and Ghostwriter for that no items, text only, final desktop kind of experience. Most or all of these should be findable in software stores like Flatpak, too.
Obsidian, it's not open-source, but it's not locking you down, and it's exceptionnally well written.
I like Apostrophe
Take a look at Obsidian over at obsidian.md
If u wanna avoid the intrusiveness of vscode u can use codium for a fully foss experience
Now with AI, hard pass.
It doesn't have any ai unless u add an ai extension. I use continue pointed at openwebui that uses a self hosted model full foss ai tool chain. And again its optional.
I use pulsar edit, the successor to atom. Also on the terminal, have a look at glow.
Had a quick look for glow but couldn't find it. I didn't know about pulsar. Is it more stable than atom, which managed to fall over when ever I looked at it sideways, a bit like the ZX80 keyboard which would cause a reboot if you dared to think about touching it, that said, reboot was much faster than atom starting up. Does pulsar take the same absurd amount of time?
Oh, not sure where I got glow from. Will have a look.
Pulsar is a fork of atom and is in active development, it can still be a little slow sometimes. But is now getting updates to make it run better
works for me.I have no idea what that's a screenshot of.
What do other headings, tables and footnotes look like?
If it's just more colours, that doesn't help me.
First, lol
Second, that looks like Kate. It's the stock text editor on KDE.
Name of the app is kate. It only does light formating and syntax highlight. Are you looking specifically for markdown editor that just doesn't hide markup? From the list you gave my understanding was that you are looking for higlight and that's +- it. There are multiple markdown specific editors that do it like ghostwriter, retext, or even emacs with markdown-mode (iirc it does rendering without hiding markup, auto-formats tables, makes links clickable, etc.)