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.