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.

  • mortalic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    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

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Emacs’s Markdown mode has two options for preview:

    • C-c C-c p (Control-C Control-C p) runs markdown-preview, which will open a preview in a new window

    • C-c C-c l runs markdown-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 k to run Make. In my init.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.md in emacs and hitting C-c a k will regenerate the pdf using pandoc with that setup. It sounds like you’re familiar with pandoc.

    If you have evince running on foo.pdf, it’ll monitor changes to the displayed pdf file, and then just update its display if the file changes.

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    6·
    4 hours ago

    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.

  • dbkblk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    4 hours ago

    Obsidian, it’s not open-source, but it’s not locking you down, and it’s exceptionnally well written.

    • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioOPEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      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?

    • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioOPEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      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.

      • nesc@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        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.)

        • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioOPEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          I tried editing my post to add this, but Pachli doesn’t want to play at the moment.

          Ideally I’d be able to use it to either see the raw markdown or the rendered version of whatever I’m writing, code in a dozen languages, articles, websites, legal documents, books, all of which I do pretty regularly.

          The side-by-side view doesn’t do it for me, I’d more likely than not have multiple windows open with different documents instead.

          It should do autocomplete, syntax highlighting, bracket closing, live spell checking in a variety of languages, launch quickly, be rock solid when faced with a massive log file and allow me to add menu-items to run bash scripts that do things like calculate the time it would take me to read out the text at my normal podcast reading voice or covert weird characters into hrml-entities.