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.
My all-time personal favorite is probably MarkText. I’m actually surprised no one else has mentioned it; knowing it has garnered almost 50k stars on GitHub.
I really like it for its realtime preview and support for mathematical expressions. Though, it’s wonderfully feature-rich; so please check out its README for the full list.
Unfortunately, it (currently) doesn’t enjoy as much development as it previouslu did. Which has ultimately led me to pivot to ghostwriter more recently.